Top 1200 Great Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

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What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art. Art is the incarnation of the truth. It penetrates the surface of things to portray them as they really are.

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.

I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.

Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.

I think a lot of people are involved in art because of the fashion of art and the conversation. It gives them a certain sophistication, something to speak about. But art is, if it's conceptual, really about understanding the concept. And if it's beautiful, it's about seeing the beauty. It's gone much further than that now. There's too much commercialism attached to art. If the market cracks one day big-time, you'll frighten so many people away who will never come back. Because they don't really feel for art. People who buy art should want it because they love it, they want to enjoy it.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its throw-away character... But you have to sail out into the dangerous sea of fine art with these crafted works.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

Music, and art for that matter, to me is not about true meaning to anyone else but yourself. If I told you the meaning of it all from my point of view it would erase the intimacy of art. I feel like art is up for interpretation, so if I told you my meaning, how could you truly relate it to anything that “you” personally are going through?? That is the beauty of art and music in particular

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you become attuned to what art does through materiality and so you begin to look to that in contemporary art as well. And anyway, I do think that matching one's experience with what you're looking at and questioning what you're looking inevitably involves materiality, just like it involves the sense of place.

If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe. I don't know. These questions are completely hypothetical for me, because I love interacting with audiences. I want my poems to be heard.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?

The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

When it comes to art, you just need to be focused on doing a great thing. Not thinking all about the business.

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant.

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

The more you look at great art of any kind, you'll see that there's this thread running through all of it.

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.