Art Quotes

Art is my God, Music is my religion.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

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

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Art is the highest form of hope.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity.

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

Good art inspires; Good design motivates.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

More and more I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.