The Art Quotes
I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.
Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.
People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .
A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.
The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.
In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.
At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.
Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.