Art Quotes

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

I love doing action; I love doing martial arts. There's almost something balletic about it.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time.

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.

I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.

I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.

Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

I was 17 when I moved to NYC . I'm now 32. But I do know I can't see myself living anywhere else. I love the food, the fashion, art, the intelligence of this city and the people that live in it.

David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.

I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic.

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.