The Art Quotes

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.

I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the Deal' is the best-selling business book of all time.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

I had had no art training.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.

Art has to address eternal issues.

I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 years old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.

Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.