The Art Quotes

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

Art's for art. Money's for pizza.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.

It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

All art is autobiographical.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

Art is an escape from reality.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

If you train 100% the result will be 100%.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.