Art Quotes

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete? Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

Art should never try to be popular.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

Cheryl Ladd Special - One-hour long, one thought show of jigglevision.

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

I have a strong art-history background.

[Sundance] still feels like an incredible place for championing emerging voices and art.

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!