Art Quotes

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.