The Art Quotes

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

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

If someone says it's art, it's art.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

True victory is victory over oneself.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.