Art Quotes

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

Painting is more important than art.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

Put Karate into your everyday living, that is how you will see true beauty.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired.

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis.

Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance.

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power.

In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

He who wishes to fight must first count the cost

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

That race you feel you are a part of is happening only in your mind.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.

Don't be rushed, be sure.

Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble.

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.