The Art Quotes

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not hiring liberal arts majors.

There's people that focus on the game and forget about the art. There's that specific special individual that can do both.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

Heart and mind overcome all.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Gain confidence and you banish fear.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

The beauty of art is that there are no rules

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

The earth has music for those who listen.