Top 1200 Art And Creativity Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

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

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

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

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.

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

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

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

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

"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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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