We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Art Quotes from William Blake, Linda Ronstadt, Rabindranath Tagore, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hippocrates. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
Life is short, the art long.
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
Art is the path to being spiritual.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it’s all of a piece.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
You don’t have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.
Insight is the first condition of Art.
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that’s it. No America, no jazz. I’ve seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with Africa.
When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, ‘The Art of Captaincy.’ I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don’t make you good captains.
Art is messy, art is chaos – so you need a system.
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That’s where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Space is the breath of art.
The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don’t think its fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define.
That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses.
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
I love beautiful things. I’m not into art so much, like paintings.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
All art is erotic.
Art is the proper task of life.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
We have spent billions to go to the moon – we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don’t feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.
Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.
Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it’s an honor. It’s just an honor to be a comedian.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Politicians are masters of the art of deception.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
My mother Reba Vidyarthi was a Kathak dancer while my father Govind Vidyarthi was a theatre personality. Later on, he worked for Sangeet Natak Akademi and documented many dying art forms of India.
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.
The best artists know what to leave out.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
I’ve always loved to paint – I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model – and I’ve being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.
The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can’t provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.
Do activities you’re passionate about – which make your heart and soul feel perky – including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
Artists don’t make objects. Artists make mythologies.
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects – the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism – are daily devalued by commercial art.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Let’s say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can’t do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
I’m the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end.
The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture.
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.
I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.
In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Nature is the art of God.
An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.
It’s not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin’ chickens.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call.
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.
All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Art is like breathing for me. If I don’t do it, I start to choke.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.
An empty canvas is full.
I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art – sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts – as inseparable components of a new architecture.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
I’m giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
There hasn’t been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
Art depends on luck and talent.
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone… means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
Fashion is kinda a joke. I don’t get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it’s one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
Art is eternal, but life is short.
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Every good painter paints what he is.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.
Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it’s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
The end of art is peace.
I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it’s all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
We’re all works of art in progress.
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone’s politics.
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of ‘high art.’
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.
It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’
Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.
Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.
Art is the triumph over chaos.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Patience is the art of hoping.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
I think what we’re attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can’t do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That’s why life is short and art is very long.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Art is my life and my life is art.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.
Art is a kind of illness.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It’s about making the best kind of image I can make, it’s about talking as clearly as I can.
It is hard to separate the art from the artist.
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
I am not strong on perfection.
Every single day, I wake up and take a glimpse of where I am now compared to where I was before, and the work that we have all put in to be in this space. I think of that, and being able to express myself through my art and show up and be present – that’s activism, advocacy, and artistry in itself.
Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
There’s room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
Art is born of humiliation.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
My audience went, ‘Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?’ And then they went, ‘Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.’ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist’s obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
I think it’s important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the top quickly, you’re liable to fall as quickly. Take your time. It’s a long journey ahead of you as an artist. There’s nowhere that you’re supposed to be other than right now living inside of your art.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Life doesn’t last; art doesn’t last. It doesn’t matter.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Politics is the art of the possible.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Art evokes emotion. It doesn’t have to be a thing of beauty.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved – bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Art is to be free. Design is to fix.
I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there’s no such thing as the perfect haircut!
I’ve never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn’t made money with it.
Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I’m very generous, and I really want people to see that I am – that’s really it.
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.
I’m not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don’t tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I’ve done many.
‘Crazy’ is a term of art; ‘Insane’ is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
I like the art of making money more than the money.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It’s basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
My painting does not come from the easel.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
I like to learn. That’s an art and a science.
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
I don’t understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn’t be nearly as interesting.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It’s way more important than that.
Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I’m a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
You don’t have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren’t any hidden secrets or things that you’re supposed to understand.
The art is long, life is short.
Muhammad Ali – he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon… Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people’s mediocrities. That’s precisely what ‘trends’ are – a search for something ‘safe’ – and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.
I will preach with my brush.
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I’m paid to tell elaborate lies.
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
One eye sees, the other feels.
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
In art, the obvious is a sin.
I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it’s bad art.
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.
Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily.
In art the best is good enough.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
Art is made in hindsight.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
London, thou art the flower of cities all!
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn’t just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Art is all a matter of personality.
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
I could hardly sit through ‘Frozen.’ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It’s better than art because it’s from the creator.
If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It’s something you can hold, pore over the lyrics, and immerse yourself in the art work.
All art is but imitation of nature.
I’ve taken a lot of risks through the years, but I always followed my instincts and always explored new opportunities. The biggest reward has been having an idea and being able to make it a reality. My passions always lead the way – travel and adventure, fitness, art, and home.
I haven’t mastered the art of sitting and smiling.
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It’s not a dormant. It’s not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is anything people do with distinction.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
We have to support our local artists. It’s just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?
A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you’re providing delicious food with cleaner labels.
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Photographing a cake can be art.
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.
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we’re surrounded by things we can’t see.
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
Cooking well, with love, is an art.
All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’
I think that art has the ability to capture people’s imaginations and make them think that more is possible.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Architecture is art, nothing else.
Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don’t use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.
Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art – or at least people call it that.
Trying to force creativity is never good.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
A lot of cinematography is intuition. It’s an art, not a formula.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
We do not judge great art. It judges us.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
It’s clever, but is it Art?
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. ‘Action sport’ would be the least offensive categorization.
I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren’t usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It’s structures and patterns, and that’s what we love, and that’s what we get off on.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that’s difficult to access – to a level that’s not material but spiritual.
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
For me, fragrances are very – one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It’s what you want to smell like, it’s memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you’re a lover of scent, it’s a very kind of particular and evocative thing.
I’m calling the Cube, it’s a piece of art. At the same time, it’s an intellectual task as well.
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire – but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
Art is for anyone. It just isn’t for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that’s irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.
