Art Quotes

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Everything is there: the love of Art.

Reveal art; conceal the artist.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

Art without life is a poor affair.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

Music takes us where words cannot.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

Science is our century's art.

Discipline. Honour. Respect. This is why I appreciate MMA.

If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law.

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

The entire art system urgently needs a vacation.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

Art should be born from the materials.