Art Quotes

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

Attention! Attention! Attention! Thou art aware of the situation!

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Imagination governs the world.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

Industry without art is brutality.