The Art Quotes

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!

The great artist is the simplifier.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Art is the absence of fear.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.