The Art Quotes

Art never expresses anything but itself.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.

Now life is imitating art.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

A man is a god in ruins.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.

A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art.

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

Study is a life long pursuit.

Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.

Reality is what you can get away with.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

In life, nothing happens to you. It happens for you.

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand.

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.