Art Quotations | Page 3

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.

You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.

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

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.

Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.

I love reality TV and everything, and it's something that I truly love to do, and I love the outcome of it; it's like my art. I consider my reality show as my art piece, and it's like a sculpture that I built; it's my baby.

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.

I always said God was against art and I still believe it.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.

I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.

To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant dedication and diligence, as well as removing yourself at least occasionally from your own comfort zone and circumstances, and from people who looked like you.

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.