Art Quotes

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.

I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

The proper use of commas is often more art than science.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

In the martial arts, the guys respect the women fighters.