The Art Quotes

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Where are you, my little object of art? I am here to collect you.

Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

When you feel colors, you will understand the why of their forms.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

Once I win, everyone will know who my instructor is in mixed martial arts.

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

Some artists respond to critics' questions about their art. I think Bob Dylan would alwys refuse to respond to questions of that sort, he always has.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.