Art Quotes

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.

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.