Art Quotes

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.