Art Quotes

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

Schiaparelli’s collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Prada’s Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic, and culturally redefining relationship.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.

You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn those things or you can't practice the art.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.

Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.

When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.

America and Europe are so different in the way they conceive of themselves and art and cinema.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.

Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

Your apocalypse was fab.

You're only popular with anorexia.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

I've always been interested in martial arts.