Top 1200 Ancient Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

Ancient Egyptian culture was so enduring. It went on for thousands of years.

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

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

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

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

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

I've been covering the art industry for nine years, and I still don't feel like I have a clear grasp on what an art consultant does. What's the difference between a dealer and an art consultant? Who are they? What's their day to day like? So I asked a few private dealers, consultants and curators to talk about what they do. Everyone told me a different story.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

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.

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 cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

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

No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.

What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How would an ancient Israelite or first-century Jew read the Bible - what would they be thinking in terms of its meaning? The truth is that if we put one of those people into a small group Bible study and asked them what they thought about a given passage meant, their answer would be quite a bit different in many cases than anything the average Christian would think. They belonged to the world that produced the Bible, which is the context the Bible needs to be understood by.

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

The Kettlebell is an Ancient Russian Weapon Against Weakness

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

I'm getting quite into ancient barrows and the like these days.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.

My dad is amazing. He has, like, ancient Chinese skills.

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.

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

I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.