Art Quotes

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

Art is born of humiliation.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.