Top 1200 Body Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

It's a blessing to have people who love the art that you make and who are inspired by the art you create and are a part of.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with novelistic elements, comedy, drama, music, and other forms of entertainment. Film is a versatile expression, combining all elements into one art form.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.