Art Quotes

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

Art depends on luck and talent.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.