Art Quotes

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.

Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two!

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

Only art means anything.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going to be a writer.

All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

History is as much an art as a science.

I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.

To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.

Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.