Top 1200 Art And Creativity Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Everyone is entitled to love their body just the way it is. Art is art.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

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

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

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

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

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

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

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

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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

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

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

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

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

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.