Top 1200 Fine Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

The whole art of meditation is, how to leave the personality easily, move to the center, and be not a person. Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with novelistic elements, comedy, drama, music, and other forms of entertainment. Film is a versatile expression, combining all elements into one art form.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

It's a blessing to have people who love the art that you make and who are inspired by the art you create and are a part of.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.

Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.

Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, 'How are you?' Well, you don't want to know. And, frankly, I don't want to tell you. So I just say, 'Fine,' and you go, 'Fine.' And off we go.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

There are many more important things in life than fashion. But fashion, to me, is part of pop culture. And I'm an art collector. I'm obsessed with art and pop culture. And I say that there is fame, fashion, art, music and entertainment, including celebrity, that really moves the needle in society.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art appeals only to the best in people and never the darkness, which defies both logic and intuition, then we have to acknowledge that art can make some of us worse.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.