The Art Quotes

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.

All art critics are useless or harmful.

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.

Art always demands of us something new.

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

Art is an investigation.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.