Art Quotes
What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.
Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.
I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.
Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
When the music hits, you feel no pain, to quote Bob Marley. But it’s true. It’s like all art and creation: You’re completely in the moment, and you just feel free.
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.
I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.
Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?
Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.