Top 1200 Lost Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.'

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.

If you want to be an artist, go to every art gallery, if you want to be in movies, see movies! You have to participate in whichever world you're trying to enter! You have to know what's going on. You can be the best artist in the world but if you don't know one thing about which gallery to go to, you're never going to get it shown in the right place. Learn a little bit about the business of whichever art you're trying to get into. Without it, you will be lost.

What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the viewer: The viewer is here, the art is there. So the viewer is in a position of desire and frustration. There were those Do Not Touch signs in a museum that are saying that the art is more expensive than the people. But I wanted users and a habitat. I don't know if I would have used those words then, but I wanted inhabitants, participants. I wanted an interaction.

Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.

I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Many people have already lost their health care, millions already lost their health care, because they have it and can't use it because of the explosive skyrocketing premiums, or they literally lost their doctors or insurance plans or their access to health care through Obamacare.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.

With God, nothing is lost; but without him, everything is lost.

What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they decide to make art. The technology that people are working with now will be replaced in 10 years, so that's not where your future is, if you're a musician.

I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.

We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family.

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.

Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.

One time I laughed so hard, I just had to go and change my pantyhose. I lost it. Lost it. At least it wasn't onstage.

Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display.... The presenter of found art, whether material or verbal, has become a sort of artist. He has not made the object, but he has made it as art.

As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great strong masses: the buttons are lost, but the sitter remains; the sitter is lost, but the shadow remains; the shadow is lost, but the picture remains. And that, night cannot efface from the painter's imagination.

It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.

I've been at the bottom. I've lost loved ones, I've lost best friends, but that's part of life. I don't hide that.

A lot of times, elections are lost, and the hope of the public is lost because they don't turn out.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

It was challenging. It was never easy for me. My life changed suddenly, and I lost my health. I lost the body that I knew.

We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.

President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

It's senseless. I've lost several uncles, I've lost my best friend to gun violence in New Orleans.

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.

I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.

There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, "... as lost as a ball in tall grass."