Art Quotes

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

When you do Jiu Jitsu, you won't look at a bigger guy and say 'oh no', you'll look and say 'how interesting!'

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

Drawing is deception.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

Change art to include yourself.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

Light is impressionism.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.