The Art Quotes

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.

Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

Art is the soul of a people.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

Politics is not a science...but an art.

Geography is the art of the mappable.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

The end of art is peace.

A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art.

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.