The Art Quotes

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Discipline is the fuel of achievement.

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

The Art of Peace begins with you.

Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.