Art Quotes

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art.

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel. [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri Fingendus sine fine rota.]

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.