Art Quotes

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

Jiu Jitsu is about waiting for the right time to do the right move.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

She wants to lead the glamorous life, but without love, it ain't much.

Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's how dance grew, as an art form.

To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Art should be a place of hope.

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.

He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.