Top 1200 Inspirational Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

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

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

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

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

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

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

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good 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.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

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

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

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

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

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

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

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.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Seeing RuPaul go out there and not only create music, but TV and film roles, and continue to go down so many creative avenues - that is inspirational. For a person of color like myself, I see RuPaul and I say, 'Oh, honey, I can do it too.'

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.

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

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

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

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

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.

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

I left my apartment in London and I sold everything. I literally had $1000 and a suitcase when I got on the plane. The next day I enrolled in my first acting class. We had some great people, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Molly Ringwald. It was very inspirational.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

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.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.