Art Quotes

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.

We have lost the art of sharing and caring.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

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.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

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.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.