Top 1200 Teaching Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

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

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.

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

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

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

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

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

Imitation is very easy, and the whole culture and society depends on imitation. Everybody is telling you how to behave, and whatsoever they are teaching you is nothing but imitation. Religious people - the so-called religious people, the priests, the theologians - they are also teaching you, `Be like Jesus, be like Buddha, be like Krishna.` Nobody ever tells you, `Just be yourself` - nobody. Everybody is against you, it seems. Nobody allows you to be yourself, nobody gives you any freedom. You can be in this world, but you must imitate somebody.

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.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

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

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

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

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

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

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.

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

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.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

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.

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

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

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

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

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