Top 1200 Teaching Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Some teams hold a little more than others. It's an art, but it's not an art I appreciate.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

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.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

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.

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

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

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

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

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built. Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.

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

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

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

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

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

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.

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

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

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

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

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

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

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

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.