Art Quotes

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.

All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

All requires courage.

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

I love what I do, and I never thought about doing anything else. I think my voice was bestowed upon me; it was a gift I was given. I just had to learn to understand how to use it.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

I extol life so much that I cannot make art.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

I think casting a show is an art form in and of itself. We're all so different - the cast is made up partly of real stand-ups, partly of actors, and then partly of just legendary actors.

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

Film and art are close together.

There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end.

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

Everything I do is the environment.

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.