The Art Quotes

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well.

Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's fine. But that's not why I do them. I'm a gun for hire.

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

Art is a passion or it is nothing.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.

That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it”

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.