Art Quotes

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou!

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.

I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.