Art Quotes

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

Art must not serve might.

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.