Top 1200 Fine Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

Everyone is entitled to love their body just the way it is. Art is art.

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Some teams hold a little more than others. It's an art, but it's not an art I appreciate.

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.