Art Quotes

Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.

I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

Music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now.

Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.

I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal.

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.

Common Lisp is politics, not art.

The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.