Art Quotes

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.

Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Art is the act of navigating without a map.

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age.

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale and through my art start a global conversation.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions.

I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.