The Art Quotes

Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.

There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.

Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.

The most important are the eyes. In a fight if you look down out of fear you'll certainly be defeated

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Remember, light and shadow never stand still.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts.

I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being

You see what you know!

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.