Art Quotes

It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.

I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but the video star killed the live musician, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

Design provides solutions, art asks questions.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth.

But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

I think comedy is the hardest art form there is.

It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.