Art Quotes

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

A picture is a poem without words.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

Art is when things appear rounded.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.