Art Quotes
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This is what he has been selling on the 'The Apprentice', through his self-help books, how to - you know, 'Trump 101' or the 'Art of the Deal' or, really, back to 'Art of the Deal'. So almost the more he gets away with, the more he is reinforcing his brand.
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I've directed 'Raisin in the Sun' five times. You keep discovering things. You keep on seeing things in the script that you never saw before. That's what great pieces of art do.
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There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.
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The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
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To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
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Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
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The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'
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Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.
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I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.
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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
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We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.
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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
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Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
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Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever
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There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
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It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.
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An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.
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That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
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Grant us the single heart once more That mocks no sacred thing, The Sword of Truth our fathers wore When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell Our deep unspoken prayer; For, while our souls in darkness dwell, We know that Thou art there.
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I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get better from cancer rather than spending it on a work of art for my own personal indulgence? Yes, I probably would.
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I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
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As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
