Top 1200 Original Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

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

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

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

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

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.

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

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

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

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

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

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

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

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

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.

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

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

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

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

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

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

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

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

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

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

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

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

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

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

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.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

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

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.

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

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

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.

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

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

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

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

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

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

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

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

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination.

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