Art Quotes

• The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

  

  Nobu Matsuhisa
  • Art
  • Fine
  • Preparing

• The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Art
  • Science
  • Affairs

• Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Art
  • Forget
  • Ice Cream

• I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Art
  • Working

• There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Art
  • Advertising
  • Manipulation

• Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.

  

  William Soutar
  • Art
  • Prove

• Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Moving
  • Perception
  • Affection

• As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some 'they' is manipulating 'us', using, among other dark arts, advertising.

  

  George Will
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dark

• Art is the highest form of hope.

  

  Gerhard Richter
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Form

• It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song

  

  Nick Cannon
  • People
  • Fun
  • Song

• I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.

  

  Court McGee
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Advice

• Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Learning
  • Ability
  • Drawing

• As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

  

  Will Self
  • Art
  • Century
  • Bounds

• I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

  

  William Golding
  • Thinking
  • Communicate
  • Useless

• I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Love
  • Painter
  • Amazed

• Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Leadership

• But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Audience
  • Communication
  • Social

• As for what l'm making now, perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!

  

  George Rickey
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • Making

• I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Art

• As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Earth
  • Reading
  • Commitment

• Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Art
  • May
  • Impossible

• I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

  

  Steven Rodney McQueen
  • Art
  • Guy
  • Film

• Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Sculpture

• Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Study

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