Art Quotes
It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.
This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country in the culture that binds us to it.
The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.
The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.
It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
Fashion is every woman's language, and every woman's tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the most intimate art forms I can think of.
Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.
It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
I feel that bands can do whatever they want, after all, they own themselves and the art/music they create.
We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.
In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.
I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.
There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.
I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.
When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.