Art Quotes
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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.
Bonnie Langford
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Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.
Charles Stross
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In old days the plastic arts, music, and poesy were so germane to man in his totality that his Transcendence plainly manifest in them. ... What is to-day obvious to all is a decay in the essence of art. ... the opposition to man's true nature as man.
Karl Jaspers
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe
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Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
Camille Paglia
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I want to make movies and pieces of television and pieces of art that crack everyone's assumptions.
Keegan-Michael Key
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Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends
Seth Godin
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At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
Ralph Allen
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Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
Egon Schiele
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All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
Estelle Parsons
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Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.
D. Elton Trueblood
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I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.
Mary McFadden
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Jean Arp
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It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
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There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.
Deepak Chopra
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There's the art house movies and the action movies and the chick films. I think the same thing's happening with actors.
Edward Furlong
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Art has to be reflective of our society.
David Zayas
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So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
Brian De Palma
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It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.
Eli Broad
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Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
Sheryl Crow
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Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
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Mercury has cast aside The signs of intellectual pride, Freely offers thee the soul: Art thou noble to receive?Canst thou give or take the whole, Nobly promise and believe? Then thou wholly human art, A spotless, radiant, ruby heart, And the golden chain of love Has bound thee to the realm above.
Margaret Fuller
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Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.
Michael Beck Die Fantastischen Vier