Top 1200 True Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for the ride. Acting really reminds me of that because I don't write the words; I don't make the decisions. That's the director. Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities. Our true identities should have no bounds and no limits.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where Forms and Styles and Knowledge dwell. I love flowers made of glass or gold, true Art's true gifts, their painted hues more beautiful than nature's, worked in nacre and enamel, with perfect leaves and branches.

I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.

Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an anarchist, but I was always asking questions. I said, 'Isn't art supposed to be difficult?' If we can all do art, then it's not really art. It's supposed to be difficult.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.

Art shouldn't be something that you go quietly into an art gallery and dip your forelock and say 'I have to be very quiet, I'm in here amongst the art.' It's here, art's everywhere. It's how you use your eyes. It's about the enjoyment of visual things. And it's certainly not for any one group of people.

The entire 'my art is better than your art' thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your art IS better than my art... at being what it is. So what? It just so happens that my art is better than your art, at being what it is.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society — and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society — is not art.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do.

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life.

I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women's Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)