Art Quotes

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

Strategy is the craft of the warrior.

Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real?

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?