The Art Quotes

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

I decline to accept the end of man.

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

More matter with less art.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

My trade and art is to live.

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.