Art Quotes
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Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
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Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
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I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.
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I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?
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Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
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I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.
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In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.
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Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?
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We see the game as art as much as sport. That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.
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Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
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Cinema is always a political art, at the end.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk into a dojo and say to your sensei, 'Hey, salut tabarnac!' After every one of my fights I go and shake the hand of my opponent. I don't need to hate the other fighter to fight him well. It's a sport.
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I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so many other artists there who are so brilliant. And it's kind of like they stomp on the scene, and they are like, "You're not already Picasso? Get the hell out of here!" And Memphis is like, "Well, you'll get there one day!"
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Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.
