Top 1200 Art Forms Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

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

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

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

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

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

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

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

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

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

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

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

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

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

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

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

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

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

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

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

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

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

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

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

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

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

The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and colors he sees are just forms and colors, that all structures in which they play a role are purely subjective and have no relation whatsoever to any meaningful order or totality, that they simply and necessarily express nothing....No walk through the landscape is necessary any longer; and thus the very concept of landscape as experienced by a pedestrian becomes meaningless and arbitrary. Landscape deteriorates altogether into landscaping.

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.

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

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

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

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

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

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

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