Top 1200 Ancient Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

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

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

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

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

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

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

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.

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

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

"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.

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

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

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

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

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

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

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

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

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

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.

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.

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

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.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

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

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.

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.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

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

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

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

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

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

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

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

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

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

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

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.

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

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.