Art Quotes

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

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.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

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.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.