Art Quotes
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Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
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The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.
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Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from high school, I went to the Chicago Art Institute, and it was there that I thought, well, now I'm going to be a painter.
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I think good art does come from a dark place.
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Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
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There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.
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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
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Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
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I have a very broad-minded family. Acting is an art, and we understand that.
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The secret to a successful webcomic is to trick people into believing they will only get all the jokes if they read regularly. By the time they realize there are no jokes for them to get, they’ve invested too much time to quit, and they can’t admit they’ve been duped,” said Kevin. “There is a whole art to creating nonexistent jokes that appear to go over everyone’s head. It’s much harder than creating actual jokes.
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Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.
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I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.
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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.
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We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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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.
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Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
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Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
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As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.
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Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.
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There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.
