Art Quotes

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

Art is about paying attention.

Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more fulfilled person than they can ever be because they're caught up in what they hate rather than what they love.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

I want to be a living work of art.

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

The art of being kind is all the world needs.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Life is a school of probability.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful.

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.

There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.