Art Quotes

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.

Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.