Top 1200 Ancient Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. Neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at.

I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

I'll always err on the side of art for art's sake.

I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

I don't like the idea of nationalism, but on the other hand, I do see that there is a difference between British art, German art and Chinese art. This is because of the history, because each country has different history and each country reads and teaches that history differently.

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with a clear theory of art for art's sake, it is by that theory alone that their work has been, or can be, judged; -and rightly so if we remember that art embraces all life and all humanity, and sees in the temporary and fleeting doctrines of conservative or revolutionary only the human grandeur or passion that inspires them.

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film. And all art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today.

The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

I do preach the idea of individualism as in not adapting any kind of style or model other than that one of your own. I always found it strange in art history when studying about the different guilds and movements. It sounded too contrived and having to follow devised parameters to create art. I personally am not a team player in that manner. The art should be labeled by the artist's name only.

The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

When your art fails, make better art.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.