Art Quotes
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.
Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.
I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.
Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.
there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.
But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.
Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.
Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.
When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.
I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.
Sharing information, art, music, and everything on the internet now has become a part of everyone's lives.
Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.
I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.
... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.
In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.
One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.
Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.
It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.
A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.
I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.
This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.
