The Art Quotes

I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be.

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

ALWAYS PRACTICE the Art of Peace in a vibrant and joyful manner.

PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.

I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.

No art should be fashionable.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

If it has a use it isn't art.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.

Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

Art means: revealing God in everything that exists.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.