Art Quotes

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

In art, the best is good enough.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

There is no color line in art.

For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

Civilization is paralysis.

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.