The Art Quotes

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

Art lies by its own artifice.

Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.

My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

I'm a street fighter. I'm ready for any kind of mixed martial arts that comes at me.

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

Form is never more than an extension of content.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.