Art Quotes

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.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.