Art Quotes
Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.
Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we were invited to join many design competitions.
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
It's not what you're going to take from martial arts, it's what you have to give to martial arts
Through courtesy you will take a humble attitude toward your opponent in training & be grateful to him.
I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.
Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.
Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?
