Art Quotes

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

An art book is a museum without walls.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Translation is the art of failure.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Art expresses man.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.