Top 1200 Works Of Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

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

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

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

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

My older son works in finance and private equity, which he loves, and Lucas works in film and theater.

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.

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

An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery. Instead, the mystery expands from matters of expertise and taste to encompass the hidden patterns and wonderful coincidences of nature.

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

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.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

the brain works better if the hand works too.

Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

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

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

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.

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.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

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

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.

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

We want to be a works partner. Ferrari and Mercedes have their own works teams so where would you be in the pecking order if you're a customer?

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.

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

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

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

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.

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

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

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.

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.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

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.

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

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

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

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.

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

The 'Tron' fans have a real passion. They know their stuff and what works and why it works. It is more than a movie: it is a philosophy.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

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

One works in this business - if one works. You do different types of movies.

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.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.