The Art Quotes

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

Art is the escape from personality.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

Art problems are problems of human relationship.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

It's not the art, it's the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it's organic; it's relational.

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.