The Art Quotes

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

Art changes people people change the world.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

When we separate music from life we get is art.

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.