What Is Art Quotes

I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

I like my social media space to be somewhere very positive... I like to just be able to just share any images they see, or a piece of art or an item of clothing, and get to share that with the world.

I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

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.

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.

I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.

I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

All art is erotic.

Politics is the art of the possible.

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon.

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.