The Art Quotes

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.

I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was also very much involved with. But it still goes on. It's very much alive.

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?