The Art Quotes

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage 'Thou art all' and 'Thy will be done'.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

Art is for everybody.