Art Quotes
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Only through training will a person learn his own weaknesses... He who is aware of his weaknesses will remain master of himself in any situation.
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?
All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.
Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.
Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.
To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.
The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.
Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.
Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
