Art Quotes
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Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.
Maurizio Seracini
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I come from L.A. where there's a sense of show. But that's not a bad word in my mind. We say art 'show,' don't we? 'Show' implies entertainment.
James Turrell
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In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
William Hazlitt
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The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.
Patrick Henry
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I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
Kristen Wiig
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
Alfred North Whitehead
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We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
Clyde Tombaugh
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I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.
Ben Whishaw
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I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.
Amy Heckerling
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What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.
Oliver DeMille
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People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success," every damn thing - religion, art - it can all be explained by evolutionary psychology. But in our hearts we know that evolutionary psychology is only sort of accurate, because it really doesn't capture what's most interesting about our lives.
D.T. Max
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When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.
T. S. Eliot
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In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.
Bill Kovach
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The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.
Lafcadio Hearn
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All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.
Elliot Ackerman
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In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.
Stanley Kubrick
