The Art Quotes

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

It's not art, it's science.

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Too much information about nothing.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

I thought I might have to give up art, but I couldn't think of anything else to do.

The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

Life is a beautiful thing. But you're always striving to be better in your art, striving to be heard. And obviously in a movie business, it's striving to be noticed and appreciated.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.