Art Quotes

Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.

Art comes from life, not from the studio

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

We make art out of our loss.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

If it sells, it's art.

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

In art one idea is as good as another.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

Teaching is a performance art.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.