Art Quotations | Page 5

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Kids are always infatuated with the action in Martial Arts Films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the Arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.

What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school.

I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you and how the art form has changed or not changed and to learn from the greats.

Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual.

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.

As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.

I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.