Art Quotes

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery.

Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.

Timing has a lot to with art.

You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

I can concentrate on my art.

Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

Mic is volcanic, rhymes spread across the planet, I send out the scribe, now the vibes gigantic.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

TV in the middle of my steering wheel.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.