Art Quotes
The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.
Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.
I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.
I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.
Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.
Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.
In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself
I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
