Top 1200 Art Forms Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.

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

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy joy: this, too, shall pass away. Art thou in danger? Still let reason sway, And cling to hope: this, too, shall pass away. Tempted art thou? In all thine anguish lay One truth to heart: this, too, shall pass away. Do rays of loftier glory round thee play? Kinglike art thou? This, too, shall pass away! Whate'er thou art, wher'er thy footsteps stray, Heed these wise words: This, too, shall pass away.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

There are many more important things in life than fashion. But fashion, to me, is part of pop culture. And I'm an art collector. I'm obsessed with art and pop culture. And I say that there is fame, fashion, art, music and entertainment, including celebrity, that really moves the needle in society.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

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

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

The whole art of meditation is, how to leave the personality easily, move to the center, and be not a person. Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

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

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.

It's a blessing to have people who love the art that you make and who are inspired by the art you create and are a part of.

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and that they all can happen simultaneously but at different paces.

For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art appeals only to the best in people and never the darkness, which defies both logic and intuition, then we have to acknowledge that art can make some of us worse.

Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms. People like Branson - he's an idea guru. Guys like Allan Savory - he's like Father Earth. Allan has literally discovered how to stop desertification and make Africa come alive with plant life. In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.

To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.

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

In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.

We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.

I'm really into the recycling of art. That one piece of art inspires another piece of art, which inspires another piece of art. I really like that idea.

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

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