Art Quotes

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

The art of life is to show your hand.

All art is self-portraiture.

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

Be encouraged to be an encourager. It's a spiritual art that everyone can learn. And mostly you learn by practicing it.

I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

Economy is the art of making the most of life.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.

I believe I can do things people think are impossible.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.

Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

War is the highest form of modern art.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.