Art Quotes

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.

Art cannot be above the battle.

Art-making is an extension of the kind of spiritual process that shamans unfold in order to demonstrate the connectedness of the world beyond reality.

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope. -Leia Organa

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.

I have an exclusive gallery that takes care of the all of my artworks. I want to stay focused on the art and of creating and let my gallery take care of the more commercial aspects.

Normal people do not create art.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.

A billion people died on the news tonight.

His dreams are like commercials.

Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.

Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humor doesn't know what he's talking about.

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.