Art Quotes

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.