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Art Quotes
"To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace."
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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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"Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within."
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"The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user."
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"I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband."
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"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."
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"No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?"
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"I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second."
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"I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art."
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"Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems."
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"That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe."
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"I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment."
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"But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness."
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"Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters."
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"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some."
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"Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great."
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"Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness."
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"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
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"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
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"A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art."
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"Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took."
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned."
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"I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits."
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"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."
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"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
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"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."
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