Top 1200 True Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

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

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry with his very life. A true poet doesn't use poetic devices to con the heart of a woman but uses the beauty of all that is poetic to serve, cherish, and express love to the heart of a woman. Just as a true warrior is not a conqueror of femininity but a protector of femininity, a true poet is not just a wooer of a woman's heart but one who knows how to nurture and plant love in a woman's heart. Simply put, a true poet is a man who knows how to be intimate with a lover - first and foremost with Christ.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

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

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

Dreams are reality that has not become true. However, in the hearts of some people, they have already come true. People whose dreams are already achieved in their hearts, and who can see that as they boldly throw themselves into it, have true courage.

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'

Everyone is entitled to love their body just the way it is. Art is art.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

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

I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

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