Top 1200 Greek Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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.

I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

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

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

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

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

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

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

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

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

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

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

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

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

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

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

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

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

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

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

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

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

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

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

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

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

I eat a lot of Greek yogurt with honey, a lot of lean protein, vegetables.

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

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

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.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

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.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

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

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

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

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

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.