Art Quotes

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

The art is long, life is short.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

My trade and art is to live.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.