The Art Quotes

O, had I but followed the arts!

I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc... but always custom.

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.

I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

I like documenting people who can break away from the conformist boring world we are stuck in and either live their life in a much more far out way or create art that critiques it well.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer.

There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.