Art Quotes

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.