Art Quotes

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets.

Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over art–before I found myself in a country where the standard of beauty is toaster waffles shaped like cartoon characters.

I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.

The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.

The art of happiness is to serve all, and all shall serve you.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth.

I dont have ulcers, I give them

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.

While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do.

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

Life is short and the art long.