Art Quotes

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

Art must not serve might.

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.