Top 1200 Japanese Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

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

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!

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

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

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

I hate the marketing side of business where, 'Oh let's do a shoe for this clientele or for the Chinese or for the Japanese.' We're doing the same products for everyone.

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

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.

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

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

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

The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.

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

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

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.

People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

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

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

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

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

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

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

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

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

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

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

Maybe '13 Assassins' is the mortal agony and death rattle of a Japanese film industry that has abandoned its creative talent.

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

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

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

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

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.

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

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

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

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

I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.

The Highway Code can't be that difficult to understand, and yet my brain seems to treat it as a set of nuclear fission instructions in Old Japanese.

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

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

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.