Art Quotes

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Art helped give me confidence.