Art Quotes

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

Bodybuilding is not only a sport but first an ART.

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them.

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.