Art Quotes

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

I've always been a huge fan of martial arts and comedy, so Rush Hour was the perfect combination for me.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

I love the art house, and when I say the art house, I don't just mean little, independent movies but movies that really aim to be about something and say something and I love those movies.

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

I've learned you can't take any steps to protect any art. It is so vulnerable.

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

If you're in the mood for a blushing art house romance, you'll fall for it, too.

I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.

Some people live, eat and breathe art, and they love acting and filmmaking. I've got other loves. I love animals. I love teaching. I love kids. That's always something in the back of my mind.

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

Ya wanna be an artist? Make art!

Real success is making art your whole life.

A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.

There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.