The Art Quotes

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off the dribble. That's today game, and that's what I try to do.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.

The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

What is art but the denial of life?

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I think that shaped me as an artist.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.