Art Quotes

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art. In the end, I developed a more sophisticated misunderstanding of art.

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.

Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.

One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

Art upsets, science reasures.

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

Art disturbs, science reassures.

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.

I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.

A unitary urbanism — the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.