The Art Quotes

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

[In art], less is more.

Martial arts has been a way of life for me since I was a young kid. It created a discipline and respect for everything. Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.

Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Entertainment and art are not isolated

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

The arts are not frosting but baking soda.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math, and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

Never depart from the way of martial arts.

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.