The Art Quotes

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect. that's the sacrifice you make to do it.

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.

A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they do it. They look at sales as an art, not a science.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

Hard work can't be ignored forever.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.

We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.