Art Quotes

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Art is science made clear.

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

I love to collect modern art.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.