Art Quotes

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

Space is the breath of art.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

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.