The Art Quotes

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

Cinema is an art form.

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well.

Art is inside of you; express yourself.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.