The Art Quotes

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.

Contemporary art hates you.

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.