Top 1200 Art Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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.

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.

Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with novelistic elements, comedy, drama, music, and other forms of entertainment. Film is a versatile expression, combining all elements into one art form.

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.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

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.

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires

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

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

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

For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

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.

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

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