Art Quotes

The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

Can't wait to date a supermodel, can't wait to sue my Dad. Can't wait to wreck a Ferrari, on the way to rehab.

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come.

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.

I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.

I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt [Cobain] could.

Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

There is no gap between art and politics.

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

You are the artist and the art.

I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.