The Art Quotes

Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because they can pay them twice as much, and do it for the belief and the love of art.

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it...

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

Rita Haywood gave good face.

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

Art to be art must soothe.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Life is greater than all art.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.

Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.