Top 1200 Fine Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.

I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious fine art-I still see this.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.

Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

Andy was a nonverbal person; you couldn't get directions out of him. All he knew was what was modern in art was what wasn't art: The telephone was art, the pizza was art, but what was hanging on walls in museums wasn't art.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which is probably not a surprise) and I love the theater and art museums. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.

It wasn't until I became a mother that I started to refer to myself as an artist as opposed to a fine art photographer.

What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

I am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

Art, location, money - I say as long as you've got one of them, you're fine.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.

But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Art should be perceived as subjectively as possible, and if anyone wants to see something in 'Belus' that I had not planned, that is fine.

But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all.