Art Quotes

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

For the choke, there are no 'tough guys'

Do not be afraid to get close to your opponent. The closer you are, the more you will learn.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

The secret of art is love.

There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

Competition is the death of art.

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings