Art Quotes

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

Art is spiritual.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

It is difficult to make political art work.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.