Art Quotes

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.