Art Quotes

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

I like doing things I haven't learnt about yet. I've always been interested in art, and I love doing art.

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to confuse what's real life and what's not, because to your body it's all real.

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Art history is always changing too.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

Art transcends politics this weekend.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

there is no politically neutral art.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

I would love to do comedies and I would love to do dramas. I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.