The Art Quotes

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

Money and art are far apart.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.

I'm putting my emotion out on stage so people can actually feel me. If you feel somebody's art and you see them perform it and they aren't feeling it, that's one of the first things in the game.

I'm confident in my art.

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Land really is the best art.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.