Art Quotes

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art.

He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Capitalism is an art form.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

I think Mixed Martial Arts is going to be a huge thing coming up in pro wrestling, and I like to think of myself as one of the first guys to try and implement that into my style.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.