The Art Quotes

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

Patience is the art of finding something else to do.

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

I feel like when I fight it's an art, and Art isn't supposed to be 'nice', it isn't supposed to be liked. It's supposed to make you feel something.

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

Art is too important not to share.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more like Christ, the model of all Christians.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.