Art Quotes

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

The power of art can open our minds.

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

Art accepts what it finds.

Art and accident are one.

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

Look within, thou art the Buddha.

I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.

Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

In every Art it is good to have a master. [In every art it is good to have a master.]

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.

Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!