The Art Quotes

One training session won't change anything, but 10 will. Perseverance and straight up training.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.

I love art and fashion.

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

The art of peace is medicine for a sick worldit does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed

THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.

If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Cinema is always a political art, at the end.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.