Art Quotes

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.