The Art Quotes

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.

Believe in the importance of your art.

Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.

I love an art-school girl. I mean dont we all?

It is difficult to make political art work.

What thou art, that thou art.

Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

History after all is the true poetry.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.

She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.

No arts, no letters - no society.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.