Art Quotes

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.