The Art Quotes

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

Good swiping is an art in itself.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

Art must not serve might.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles.

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

Art changed my life. I mean, I would say art saved me. I believe that it made me better at handling my life.

I like dressing how I like to dress, and I look like a little art statement.

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

Pop culture was in art Now, art's in pop culture in me

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

I feel like there’s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I’m completely in this world of possibility.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.