Art Quotes

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

I can concentrate on my art.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

If it's good art, it's good.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.