Art Quotations | Page 7

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model...

Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central.

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.