Top 1200 Classical Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important.

"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming down. I'm not sure who will come up with a better term to describe art, but I think contemporary art is actually done for.

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

For me, it's classical music I started with and I admire Jacqueline du Pre.

I don't take lessons in art. It all comes from the heart, and sure I'd love to study art! In school I come across one thing I do and I want to study that in college. I love history, I love science, I love art, I love grammar, I love literature!

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is everything. I will strive to create works of art until I die, in the hope that my work will continue to touch the hearts of people even after I have died.

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it.

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

I was able to turn to classical music many people, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

I love movies; I grew up loving movies. I've always loved movies. I never thought about making movies until I took art classes and then I started studying different artists. As you study paintings, you see light and shadow, of course - Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix. You start to understand the relationship between people and art, and images. For me, between movies that I watched and art, it was like, I'd love to make moving art. Moving pictures.

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.

If you want to be successful in the art world you've got to look to the art world; you don't make it for the bloke next door and then hope the art world is going to look at it. That's one of the big mistakes people make.

Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.

I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

I like the boundaryless potential you get when you make work for a context that is open to interpretation. Thinking about an art context is too claustrophobic, though. I always hope that at least half my audience is not directly related to the art world. I use art as a balancing act. It's a good way of avoiding everyday chores and social obligations.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.

I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In French we say l'art de la realite. You show reality, so you have to show bodies.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

My entire family are in music and my father was a classical singer, teacher and composer.

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

I started officially learning music when I was 14. I learnt Hindustani classical.

The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world. All genuine art seeks the spirit. Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory - disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness. If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends.

There is a way to support the art and to allow and encourage the art to flourish while being critical. In fact, I find in teaching that self-critique is one of the best ways to have your art grow, but if you start tearing yourself down then, it's not going to go anywhere. I feel the same about critics. I feel that's happening all too often.

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

I listen to classical music when I need to relax. It depends a lot on mood.

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you must be willing to go all the way for your art. If it is a question between choosing between your life and a work of art -- any work of art -- your decision is made for you.

Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or '92 I saw one of those Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled billboards. I was just really arrested by it. It was kind of my first foray into contemporary art. It was a turning point for me as to what art could be and what it meant and the impact it could have.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.