Art Quotes

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source.

They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

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

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.

Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

My health has benefited the most from practising Wing Chun.

Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul.

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art.

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

When you teach her that hoe mentality, they accept that as reality.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself