Art Quotes

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.

Make good art.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.