Top 1200 Art Director Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

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

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

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

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

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

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

Some teams hold a little more than others. It's an art, but it's not an art I appreciate.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

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

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

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.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

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

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

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

My job as an actor is to try to do what the director wants me to do. I'm going to do everything I can to incorporate that note and make it work. If it doesn't work, I'll try this kind of thing, and "How do you feel about that?" If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy. Even when I was younger, there were times when you have to find a way to make it work for both of you.

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

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.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

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

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

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

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

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

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

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

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

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

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