Art Quotes

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

If it's good art, it's good.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

The art is long, life is short.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'