The Art Quotes
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.
Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.
If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.
That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life - nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.
Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
