Art Quotes

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.