The Art Quotes

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

In art, everyone who plays wins.

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or physically, I’ll take either way.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

We'll always have art, darling.

I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind of helped form a base for me as far as dancing.

Those who rush are the same ones who lack technique.

I'd hate to compare art to life but I think a movie is an entity of its own, and when it's done, you want everybody to like it like you want everybody to like your children.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

Poetry is devil's wine.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

How can art make a difference in the world?

I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art.