The Art Quotes
Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.
One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.
Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.
We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.
You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.
As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.
I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.
Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.
The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.
A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.
In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.
Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.
