Art Quotes

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.

I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.

Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people like Warhol, Basquiat and Velasquez.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art.

The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life.

Directing is a tremendous art.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

I do believe in art and commerce coming together.

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being.

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

You are a work of art.