Art Quotes

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

Art is competitive.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

What I'm good at is making art.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Art is not only about angst.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.