Art Quotes

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

Art is born of humiliation.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.