Art Quotes

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

All art is but imitation of nature.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.