The Art Quotes

I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

The artist...is the voice of the people.

Art destroys silence.

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

All art requires courage.

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.