Art Quotes
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.
The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.
In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.
Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.
The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history
My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.
I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.
