Art Quotes
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.
God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth
Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.
The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".
As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.
Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.
In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done
The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.
Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
