Top 1200 Chinese Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.

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

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

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

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

Drag is very much an art form, and all art goes through ebbs and flows and trends.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

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

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

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

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.

Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

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

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

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