The Art Quotes
Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.
There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.
One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.
You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.
I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.
Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.
The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
