The Art Quotes

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

Science and art are not opposed.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

Nature is the art of God.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me!

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

I asked her for Adidas and she bought me Zips.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.