The Art Quotes

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Art-school girls are very nice.

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

There's no art where there's no fee.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art

Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.

Media over here, coming to ya like a world premiere. Trench coat and my underwear, let's go with this freak show.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

The arts don't exist in isolation.

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

Self-creation is the highest art.

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.