Art Quotes

Probability is a liberal art; it is a child of skepticism, not a tool for people with calculators on their belts to satisfy their desire to produce fancy calculations and certainties.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- People
- Art
- Desire
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

T. S. Eliot
- Important
- Art
- Compare

The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.

Rachel Kushner
- World
- Character
- Funny
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

Jacques Audiard
- Great
- Music
- Father
The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.

Cliff Richard
- Time
- World
- Period
Look at all those unattractive people talking about depraved things all day long on TV talk shows. People can talk about themselves, yet the art of conversation, which has to do with sharing, is disappearing. I feel as though I am chasing a runaway locomotive.

Letitia Baldrige
- People
- Long
- Art
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

Dominique Swain
- Art
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Arthur Erickson