Top 1200 Art Forms Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more fully than other art forms, I think. It doesn't simply describe an experience, or a feeling, or a moment: it evokes it through, say, rhythm or tone or diction or metaphor. It creates a mood. A poem communicates before it is understood; it's not a fully paraphrasable form, which distinguishes it from other forms of writing.

Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.

I think the most remarkable thing about ice, in my opinion at least, is that it occurs in many, many, many different forms. Most solids occur in typically one or maybe two or three different forms, and ice has approximately 15 different crystal forms, as well as two forms that are called amorphous, which means without any shape at all.

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.

I've always liked science fiction as a way of commenting on ourselves and it's wrong that it is seen as less valid than other art forms.

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

I'm a very femme gay boy, so what better way to express that than through drag? It truly is the greatest mix of art forms.

But stand-up is also one of the few art forms where women aren't judged on their appearance - possibly the only one where people are actually there to listen to what they say on stage.

Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.

The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

All forms are complex once you get to a really high level, and jazz and hip-hop are so connected. In hip-hop, you sample, while in jazz, you take Broadway tunes and turn them into something different. They're both forms that repurpose other forms of music.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die... but the forms are dissolved.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).

I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Andy was a nonverbal person; you couldn't get directions out of him. All he knew was what was modern in art was what wasn't art: The telephone was art, the pizza was art, but what was hanging on walls in museums wasn't art.

We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Comedy is a difficult thing for a critic, as, unlike all other art-forms, it has an inbuilt success-o-meter: laughter. Therefore, there's no real need for critics.

Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.