Art Quotes
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If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
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I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.
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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?
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Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!
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I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.
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I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
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Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.
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The thinking of art seems final when The thinking of god is smoky dew.
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And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
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We Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber painted embroidered and made collages. All these works were drawn from the simplest forms and were probably the first examples of concrete art. These works are realities pure and independent with no meaning or cerebral intention. We rejected all mimesis and description, giving free reign to the elementary and spontaneous.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.
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Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
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Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
