Top 1200 Original Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the 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.

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

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.

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.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

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.

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

Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.

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

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

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.

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

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

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

"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.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

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.

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

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

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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