Art Quotes

Love-making is an art which must be studied.

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

An art book is a museum without walls.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

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.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

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.