Top 1200 Chinese Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

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

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

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

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

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

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

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

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

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

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

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.

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

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

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese Space Program, studied in the United States, and he was a protégé of Theodore Von Carmen's at Cal Tech and helped start the jet propulsion laboratory there, and then he got caught up in the anti-communism wave and was accused of being a spy and was actually deported back to China where he built from nothing, their entire missile and space program. So, in a way, in a very real way, the United States in trying to protect so-called protect our secrets and throwing this guy out of the country, we helped seed and start the Chinese missile program.

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

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

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.

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

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

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 don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

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

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

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

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

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.

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

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

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

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.