Art Quotes
You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics.
Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.
He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.
Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.
A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.
Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
