Art Quotes

Educate us with your media machine, tell me what to dream.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.

To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.

The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

We are not so brazen as to believe that we can perfectly calibrate valuation; determining risk and return for any investment remains an art not an exact science

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.

Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Even though Prince wasn't rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.