Art Quotes

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Art is a kind of illness.

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

Trying to force creativity is never good.