The Art Quotes

There exists no more difficult art than living.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.

This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

Where I am always thou art. Thy image lives within my heart.

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

I think your life informs your art.

We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.

When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

Thou art true and honest as a dog.

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.