Art Quotes

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art must exist for you in a place beyond the judgment of others.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.

And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.

Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

No art goes unmediated by other art.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

I collect a lot of art.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.