The Art Quotes

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.

For me, I learnt from jiu-jitsu and martial arts to be humble and to go forward in life in a positive way.

I am close friends with Marina Abamovich, so I love strong, very aggressive political art. She is like a mom who wants to adopt me.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

I don't really have hobbies. Сombat arts was a hobby that became a career.

I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

My worst day in the gym is still more fun than my best day in the office!

I'd always done martial arts I was always interested in fighting.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.

I was good at art - always good at art.

Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.

I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.

I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.