Art Quotes

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

Art has absolutely changed my life.

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.