The Art Quotes

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who'll break my Heart

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

I primarily buy art to show it off.

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while, I'm curious. I like to see what's out there.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

Art should be on the side of humanity.

To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

Football is an art form in itself. All sports are.

I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.