The Art Quotes

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Art is stronger than Nature

The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, 'You don't have to go too crazy on your brows. Take it easy, man!

A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you're good, you don't need other people saying that you're good in order to be good.

Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear.

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.

It's all about a balancing act between time, temperature and ingredients: That's the art of baking.

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists. Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone who follows the path of the martial arts.

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.