Art Quotes

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

Art depends on luck and talent.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Translation is the art of failure.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.