Art Quotes

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

If only art were as rare as good taste.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."

The art of love is who you share it with.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.

I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

You need the art in order to love the life.

My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

The quest for the next key art awards begins with tomorrow's hangover

When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.

Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.