The Art Quotes

When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.

Art should create an experience.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.

As a collector, you will discover that surrounding yourself with art can enrich not only your visual experiences, but instill a sense of vitality to your life and uplift your soul.

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.

Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

Art lies because it's social.

Art exists because life is not enough.

And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.

If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.

The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.