Art Quotes

• Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Perfection
  • Judged
  • External

• By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Society
  • Poetry
  • Profound

• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Art
  • Always
  • Blame

• Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Walking
  • Lights

• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Technology
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Live
  • Art

• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Job
  • History
  • Best

• I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Words
  • Understanding

• And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

  

  John Grierson
  • Art
  • Powerful

• There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

  

  Hayden Schlossberg
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • Laugh

• Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Prepared
  • Spontaneity
  • Meticulously

• There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

  

  Danny Aiello
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Godfather

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Feeling

• I never thought about doing anything other than making art.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Art

• 'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • War
  • Story
  • Hell

• I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.

  

  James Baldwin
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thoughts
  • Expression
  • Profoundest

• I love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Women
  • Art
  • Dance

• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Life
  • American
  • Movie

• By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Art
  • See
  • Canvas

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Hand
  • Creative

• Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Simple
  • Dedication
  • Persistence

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