Art Quotes
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The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.
Sarah Jessica Parker -
When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.
Sandra Cisneros
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Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.
Seth Godin -
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 -
Art without heart is craft.
Eric Gibbons -
No art comes from the conscious mind.
Steve Martin -
Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work - sometimes it's really great; sometimes it's non-existent, sometimes it's fruitful.
Sheila Heti -
If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.
William Wordsworth
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I would like to continue to make art by being able to do what I love and have that make it possible for me to support my family. I'd like to make people happy, show people a good time, and hopefully inspire some people.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
Seth Godin -
Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head...
Michael Jackson -
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
Saul Bellow -
I express myself through my art.
Steve Carr -
There exists no more difficult art than living.
Seneca the Younger
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Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.
Esperanza Spalding -
But in art class, all you had to do was try. I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Art is our defense against hysteria and death.
Theodore Roethke -
It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
Hans Asperger -
I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.
Ntozake Shange -
Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
Thomas Sowell -
School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.
Troy Garity -
When you are at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Miguel de Cervantes -
What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it..........but this is how math is taught and so in the eyes of most of us it becomes the equivalent of watching paint dry. While the paintings of the great masters are readily available, the math of the great masters is locked away.
Edward Frenkel