Art Quotes

I view my hair and clothes as functional art.

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.

Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.

... life is too short to do the whole.

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.

We are the modern day gladiators.

Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.

In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

I don't like hype cluttering art.

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this as just a job. I think of music as art.