The Art Quotes

I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very fortunate for it.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

Color will play no part in the art of future.

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

I really do appreciate the awareness and the hype that the fans are creating. I, myself, have become totally addicted to checking out the fan art.

Communication is a science as well as an art. What does speaking precisely mean? You are consciously communicating with another person at that person's frequency, not yours.

Appreciation is an art and a lifestyle and a source of happiness and fulfillment. It's called gratitude-an attitude of gratitude.

There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

Book marketing should be a planned process, an art if you will.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.

The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.