Art Quotes

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

We want to raise the art of living well.

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

Timing has a lot to with art.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

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.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.