Art Quotes

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

You don't make art, you find it

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Fashion is not art. Never.

Drawing is the honesty of art.

Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

There is no art without Eros.

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

Everyone's work is equally important.

Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely but unreachable.

Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

Art can contradict Science.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Use your art to fight.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

An art book is a museum without walls.

Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at