Top 1200 Abstract Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.