Art Quotes

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

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.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

We have lost the art of sharing and caring.

Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.