The Art Quotes

It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same?

There's an art to playing live. It's a great feeling. It's indescribable. It's what I love. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it.

What can art really do in the face of atrocity?

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

Minimal art went nowhere.

I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.

The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and utilize combined energy

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.

Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.

With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage.

Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.

Do not press an enemy at bay.

He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.

The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

It was a dream world, a kind of Alice in Wonderland, with its kings and queens, princes and princesses, and our millions of loyal subjects. But it wasn't real, and it couldn't last.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

I’m not a poet—I’m a drifter in the arts.

I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it was everything mixed together.

Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.

Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.

There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.