Art Quotes

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.

Art is my life and my life is art.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Politics is the art of the possible.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi.

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.