Art Quotes

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

God ever geometrizes.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

California is an Italy without its art.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.

Heaven's great artillery.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.

I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one to despair about.

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.