Art Quotes

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

Art lies by its own artifice.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!