Art Quotes

Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

Doth sickness fill my heart with fear, 'Tis sweet to know that Thou art near; Am I with dread of justice tried, 'Tis sweet to know that Christ hath died.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true... it shows the essence of falling in love.

Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

I believe only in art and failure.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

I'm working in my mind.

I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.