The Art Quotes

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee.

Art chooses its constraints.

Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.