Top 1200 Avant Garde Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.

If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence.

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

I think the problem with the art market and the art scene is that it is its own beast. It thrives and breathes and defecates independently of the artist.

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

I've been covering the art industry for nine years, and I still don't feel like I have a clear grasp on what an art consultant does. What's the difference between a dealer and an art consultant? Who are they? What's their day to day like? So I asked a few private dealers, consultants and curators to talk about what they do. Everyone told me a different story.

Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.