The Art Quotes

Your bullshit culture licking can't stop the death watch ticking.

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

I look for what needs to be done

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

I believe in art that conceals art.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

There's the inherent value of the arts in terms of what that does for the quality of life and culture. The arts - in my case theater, play-writing - is all about community.

I am first and foremost a musician, although those of us who live elsewhere still dream about the inspirational qualities of Australia and its ravishing transcendental beauty.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.

I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.

Everything may happen.

All I owe the world is my art.

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.