Art Quotes

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.