Art Quotes

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

It doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.

If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.