Art Quotes
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
Malcolm Mclaren
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
Hans Hofmann
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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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It's a waste to not say anything with art.
Yoko Ono
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
F. Sionil Jose
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Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.
Neil Strauss
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We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
Daniel Tammet
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It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
Owen Hart
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The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
O. Henry
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My work looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge.
Nicolas Provost
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
Fiona Dourif
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Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.
Janelle Monae
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
G. H. Hardy
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The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.
Adolf Hitler
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An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
Al-Farabi
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The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life, what is seen as good and evil. Good and evil are defined by religions.
Leo Tolstoy
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I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
Emily Weiss
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
Radha Mitchell
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Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.
Kailash Kher
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Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia
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Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
Fannie Hurst
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
Zack Snyder