Art Quotes

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.

Films, media, educational system and arts portray Muslims in a racist and negative way. The more interesting question is who is behind these images.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

I try to conceal art with art.

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

Study the science of art and the art of science.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.

I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

Art arises from the interaction of the mind and the heart.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.