Art Quotes

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.

To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity.

When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

I know for sure that God can do whatever He wants to do. He's called me to be faithful to do good art, to lift up Jesus and that's what I'm going to do and I'll let the Lord take care of the rest.

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.