The Art Quotes
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.
It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.
I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia...a true masterpiece!
Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.
All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
