Art Quotes

Winner gave me my bread and Russell gave me my art.

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.

Kanye West is inspirational. He expresses such a strong vision beyond music, beyond fashion - it's art. He sn't afraid to push boundaries and be provocative.

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

Music is the perfect type of art.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Nature constantly imitates art.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

Art should never be popular.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

Art lies in concealing art.

The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.

The media sells it and you live the role.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job?

I want to create amazing art and content that inspires people to want to be the best versions of themselves everyday, and never let anyone (even themselves) hold them back.

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.

This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.