Top 1200 Comic Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

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

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

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

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

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.

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

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

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

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

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

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

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

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

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

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

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 market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

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

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

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

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

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.

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

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

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

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

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