Art Quotes

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Art is 110 percent sweat.

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

Art is eternal, but life is short.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.