Art Quotes
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.
The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.
Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.
Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.
Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.
You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
