Art Quotes

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.