Art Quotes

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the way you see life.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology on one side, and on the other side, art.

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

This is the golden age of grotesque.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

I do feel Im being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with Mortal Kombat.

I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.