The Art Quotes

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

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You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

I love the arts, and enjoy going to the art museum whenever I get a chance.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.

Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

There is no such thing as #1 in art.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit.

If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.

Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

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The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.

But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out and play my art and still play guitar, which is my life.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

I haven't placed any limits on myself