Art Quotes

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

By the work one knows the workman.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.