Art Quotes

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.

Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and artistic identification. It's the same origin.

I draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

Every old poem is sacred.

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.

I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.

It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.

Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.

I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

Body art isn’t a contest. The only person that has to like it is the person stuck with it for the rest of their life. As long as you love it when you see it, that’s all that matters.