Art Quotes

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.