The Art Quotes

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

You can create art that makes people feel better.

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

I think art, at best, holds up a mirror to humanity.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day they will be considered equal. They aren't yet. They will be.

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

O delicious kiss, Why thou so sudden art gone? Lost in the moment thou art won?

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive…

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.

Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined, it became Laguardia School of Arts.

If you want to make [your own way in music] it as a player, which is very difficult, as Art Blakey said to me, "We're blessed to have the opportunity to do this." So just keep that in mind.

I remember Art Blakey saying to me, "Just remember, we're blessed to do what we do."

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

Im inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.