Art Quotes

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Art is a sense of magic.

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.

Patience is the art of hoping.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.