Art Quotes

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

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

We see the game as art as much as sport. That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

They're not poodles, they're art.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.