Art Quotes

My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think.

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.

Comedy is a noble art.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.

A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art.

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years.

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

Nothing will enrich your life as much as the appreciation of art. If you want to 'Live Rich', you have to - absolutely have to - include art in your life.

Learning how to weigh evidence and fairly re-establish a boundary can be as much an art as a science.

For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met.

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

Laugh, if thou art wise.