Art Quotes

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice.

Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.

It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.

One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

I love every aspect of the performing arts and can't imagine myself doing anything different. I give my heart to every project.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.

The great artist takes what he needs.

Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.

Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.

Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

Nowadays anyone can show their art to anybody via the Internet.

I want to always do things that are very current and pushing the boundaries of the way we create art.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.

My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It is absolutely free. It is the community center.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.

I started doing martial arts when I was a kid. I don't often get that kind of role, although I get to do it periodically, which is a lot of fun for me.

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.

I live between two things-I live between art and pop all the time.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.