Art Quotes

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

The subject comes first, the medium second.

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

You are your own superstar, and only you can shape the movie that you make.

If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer.

If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.