Art Quotes

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

I can concentrate on my art.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

If it's good art, it's good.