Art Quotes

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

I had had no art training.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.