Top 1200 Greek Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time in it. Then I gave it to The Beatles.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM!

We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped.

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.

The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.