The Art Quotes

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.

How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy...

There's always a down side with any freedom. It's not just homosexual freedom, but any sexual freedom comes at a price, and that is usually art.

I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

Artists are fiery; they do not weep.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

We will make love an art and we will love like artists.

Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

I am a huge comic book fan, and I love everything vintage: cars, movies, music, art, and style - especially the 1950s style.