Top 1200 Greek Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

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

Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

Drag is very much an art form, and all art goes through ebbs and flows and trends.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

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

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

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

There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

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

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built. Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Mid-afternoon, I snack on Greek yogurt with nuts or a green juice from Juice Press.

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

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

Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

To me, this is the most awesome kind of art. When the music is right, everybody is as much a part of the art.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.

People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.

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

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.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.