Art Quotes

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Music is reflection of self.

I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

I'd love to teach theatre arts.

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.

Art without heart is craft.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

I love putting the music together. It's like art

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.