The Art Quotes

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

This is very positive for our community...The educational facilities in our area are enjoying advanced broadband services over a state-of-the-art 4G wireless network

I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great... it's necessary.

When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

Living life, I mean, my two stepsons, my husband, I think every day - today interaction inspires me - as far as music goes - inspires my art.

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

It's possible to have an awesome life, but it's up to ourselves to do it.

I absolutely love this. Top notch art and scripting encapsulating a brilliant idea.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

Leadership is the art of the future.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

The artist is justified by his art.

Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.