Art Quotes

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art.

With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.

I exist in the world and live in my art.

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.

As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

I like art that trusts its audience, that's written for readers who like to work hard. I like art that knows its readers are up to the challenge of interacting with difficult material.

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

Writing is the most solitary of arts.

Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.

If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.