Art Quotes

I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've been here ever since. I still think Chicago is the best city in the country.

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

I've always been very opinionated, for lack of a better term, about art. Not to sound too arrogant, but I guess I'm a connoisseur of telling people what I think is good and bad.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

There is no patriotic art.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Art will always be art.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.