Art Quotations | Page 5

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

Kids are always infatuated with the action in Martial Arts Films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the Arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,

I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.