Art Quotes

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

Art: to nudge truth along a little.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

We rappers are role models.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.

You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

Your life is your art.

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.

To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change.

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. That's why they call it artWORK!

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.