The Art Quotes

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

You cannot play for safety and make art.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

The harmonic effects produced unconsciously by our guitarists are one of the miracles of natural art.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Management is not a science, it is an art.

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business

Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.

Art needs an operation

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.