The Art Quotes

That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.

Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

Hold your head up to the gun of a million cathode ray tubes aired at your tiny skull.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

Wherever You Are, Be There One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.

The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

Science disembodies; art embodies.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal.