The Art Quotes

Mentalism is the art of exploring and revealing hidden connections.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

Those are the murderers of art who are sitting on the top wearing crowns of fake intelligence. Let me bring them down with the power of my art, without delaying the matter further.

I believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth.

I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

A name means a lot just by itself.

A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

Energy and art go where they will.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.

I really got the best of education , and arts and music and summer camp. I had it great.

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability to speak anything but the truth.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.