Top 1200 Literary Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

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

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

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

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've been covering the art industry for nine years, and I still don't feel like I have a clear grasp on what an art consultant does. What's the difference between a dealer and an art consultant? Who are they? What's their day to day like? So I asked a few private dealers, consultants and curators to talk about what they do. Everyone told me a different story.

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.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

I think the problem with the art market and the art scene is that it is its own beast. It thrives and breathes and defecates independently of the artist.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

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 don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

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

I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

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

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

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.

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

I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

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

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

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

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

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

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

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

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

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

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

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.

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

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.

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

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

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

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

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

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.