Art Quotes

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today.

I'm a straight lady, the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your man, but never top him, never steal the laughs.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

I paint in order not to cry.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

A rebel without a clue.