Art Quotes
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.
I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.
All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world
Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay.
Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
