Top 1200 Art Appreciation Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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

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

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

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

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

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

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.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

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

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

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

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.

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

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

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.

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

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

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

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

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

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

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

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

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

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.

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

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

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

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

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.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

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

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

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

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

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

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

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 cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

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