The Art Quotes

She has given me a way out.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!

The true source of happiness is within each of us.

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.