Art Quotes
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.
With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.
We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.
Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.
I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all.
Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves.
There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.
It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting
It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.
If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.
As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt
The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.
I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!
"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.
Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.
Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.
When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come in here." But that's maybe a deeper question.
Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.