Art Quotes
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If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.
Dick Wolf
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It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
Hans Asperger
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
bell hooks
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In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be read, seen, performed, and heard for the rest of time. If I could do something that lives after me, then I think I will have had a life well led.
Seamus Dever
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In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.
Bill Henson
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The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.
Paul Signac
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt
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Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
David Shields
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh
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We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.
Clara Jeffery
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Art is only art if it is synonymous with living.
Alexander Girardun
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In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.
William James
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You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.
Nicholas Sparks
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What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind.
Frank Deford
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I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.
Celine Dion
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A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
Michael Heizer
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I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.
David Cronenberg
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We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.
Carmen Cusack
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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
Joseph Brodsky
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I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations - that was the whole point of the Brillo Boxes and Campbell's Soup Cans. And believe it or not, in 2009, moronic journalists are still saying to me, 'Your work is so commercial.'
Peter Marino