The Art Quotes

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Each body has its art.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.

Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.

Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait in patience, till light arises out of darkness and leads thee.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there

I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.

Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

Fashion is above all an art of change.

Branding is the art of becoming knowable, likable and trustable.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art