Top 1200 Best Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

If I'm starting, I'm gonna do that, that's the main goal for me, to be the best player I can be. But being on the bench, I'll be the best I can be and help the team to the best of my ability.

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

Any fighter worth his salt wants to be the best and to be the best you have to fight the best.

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.

Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

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

I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.

Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

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

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

My goal is to be the best. That's my thing I want to achieve - the best that I can be - and hopefully, that's the best player in the NBA.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

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

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

Mr. Bachchan is one of the best things to have happened in my life. The best teacher, the best guru.

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.

I tried to really look at what's best for my career, what's best for my life, what's best for my family, for me.

The thing that I miss more than anything is doing Saturday morning telly. It was the best, best, best three years.

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.

...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.

The Australians have a scientific approach and a very strong professionalism, a passion to do the best. Theirs is the best wool. And Loro Piana wants the best.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

I know as a director I hit it out of the park sometimes, and sometimes we haven't, and that's kind of the way art goes. You just have to be willing to take the 'failures' and learn from them, make the best of them.

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

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

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

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

For me, United is the biggest club in the world. We have everything. We have the best coaches, the best players, the best fans and we're known everywhere.

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

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

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

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

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. ... The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.