Art Quotes

Art is much, but love is more.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.

To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

Art for me is the science of freedom.

Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.