Nothing Quotes

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.