Art Quotes
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality . . . creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
Eric Bell Thin Lizzy -
It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
Ivan Turgenev -
A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.
David Rakoff -
A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
William Butler Yeats -
By embracing a label such as 'non-fiction,' the creative writing community has signaled to the world that what goes on in this genre is at best utilitarian and at worst an utter mystery. We have segregated the genre from art.
John D'Agata -
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
Larry Ellison
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'Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,' I quoted.
Kage Baker -
The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
Penn Jillette -
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Earl Wilson -
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Arthur Erickson -
One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
Chuck D
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The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
Andre Kertesz -
Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Larry Rivers -
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
Caio Fonseca -
I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.
Jack Kirby -
When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. Henry -
It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
Vaclav Klaus
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Nature constantly imitates art.
Oscar Wilde -
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
D. H. Lawrence -
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
Barbara Kruger -
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
Larry Niven