The Art Quotes

These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

Music is the universal language.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.

I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

I'm as good as Jean-Claude Van Damme when it comes to martial arts. Sounding a little cocky aren't I

I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.

Every picture's painted differently, every one has got a vision in their mind. That fills the heart with answers, and the missing piece that we hope to find.

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.

Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.