The Art Quotes

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?

All men are creative but few are artists.

Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think Art Bell thought there was a spot to be filled. He was doing exactly the same thing.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

For some players, luck itself is an art

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

As I pointed out in The Art of the Motor and elsewhere, from now on we need two watches: a wristwatch to tell us what time it is and a GPS watch to tell us what space it is!

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

I think that the most exciting thing is to find a tool, like an art, with an opportunity to share. Real roots come from everywhere in the world. Why call is congress? Because it is a congress.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.

Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the script.

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

Science is the art of the solvable.

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.