Art Quotes

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

The artist must create himself or be born again.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.

There is no art when one does something without intention.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.

The course of Nature is the art of God

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

Art often reflects what's going on in the world, and we're seeing stories that are very diverse and that are lead and made by women because that's what's in our world.

I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.