Art Quotes

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

True art consists in concealing art.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Zion, thou art doubtless anxious for news of thy captives; they ask after thee, they who are the remainder of thy flock.

The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better way to make a point.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.

Politics is the art of reaching a goal that benefits all citizens of a nation.

Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'