Art Quotes

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Yoga is an art and science of living.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

Art is spiritual.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

It is difficult to make political art work.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.