Art Quotes

One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.

Art is life, plus caprice.

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

Art is a way of survival.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

I don't like the word "experiment" in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.

Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

History teaches everything, even the future.

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.

The art of dressing is the art we all practice

It is ultimately character that underwrites art.

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

It made me a household name, but nothing comes for nothing. What I had to give physically, emotionally and vocally to that role took a bit of my soul away.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.