Art Quotes
- Page 5In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Bela Bartok
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
Giorgio de Chirico
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Theodor Adorno
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Tom Clancy
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Michael Palin
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
Renee Fleming
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
Robert Barclay
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
Jeff Koons
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
Tina Weymouth
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Issey Miyake
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
Lisa Bonet
When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
Nancy O'Dell
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
John B. S. Haldane
I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
Annette Bening
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
Damien Hirst
Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
Don King