Art Quotes
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.
Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.
No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.
Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.
The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.
