The Art Quotes

Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.

Our fears don't stop death, they stop life.

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

If we fight for money, I'll stop hitting you when you ask me to. If we fight for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life.

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Spirit first, technique second.

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Music is the space between the notes.

Emo always meant emotional. Any kind of art or music should be emotional. If its not, than it's pretty much just a jingle selling bleach or pizza.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.