Art Quotes

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Painting completed my life.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

Martial art has always been my first love.

Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life.

Time waits for no man.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward - only to live & to hear my work.

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

I think everybody should like everybody.

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.