The Art Quotes

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.

1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan

Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

The painting has a life of its own

The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.

Yoga is the art and science of living.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.