Art Quotes
Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.
Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life
If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.
Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.
I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.
... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it
I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.
For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.
There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.
An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.
