Art Quotes

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

All art is exploitation.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Art is difficult.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.