The Art Quotes

Don't Worry Be Happy

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

art is the pulse of a nation.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

I always think street but train sport.

For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

Time is the great art of man.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.