The Art Quotes

When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

No great work of art is ever finished.

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion

Street fights are unpredictable, dirty fights.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.