Art Quotes
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Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.
Frank Ocean
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All Heaven is within thee, Man, And all of Hell within thy heart: What thou dost choose and will to have, That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.
Angelus Silesius
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
Wallace Stevens
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By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead.
John Waters
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Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.
Ellsworth Kelly
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
Brandon Boyd
Incubus
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran
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What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful
R. C. Sproul
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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
Tamra Davis
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You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
Kit Williams