The Art Quotes

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

With age, art and life become one.

Art is nothing but humanized science.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

All art is a kind of confession.

I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

Don't think OF your goals, think FROM them.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.

Genius is the art of taking pains

Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.

Art is the clothing of a revelation

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.

Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.

Karate is for life, not points.

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my life away.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.