Art Quotes

"When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!"

Ron Wood, Musician

"The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined"

Robert Musil, Writer

"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"The perfection of art is to conceal art"

Quintilian, Educator

"It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art"

Margaret Oliphant, Novelist

"When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed"

Paul Klee, Artist

"My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"Art is spiritual"

John Cusack, Actor

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

Paul Klee, Artist

"The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now"

Ron Wood, Musician

"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"

William Drummond

"I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department"

Sela Ward, Actress

"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions"

Paul Klee, Artist

"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see"

Paul Klee, Artist

"There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being"

Luis Barragan, Architect

"It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray"

Eddie Vedder, Musician

"And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you"

Fred Frith, Composer

"To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors"

Emil Nolde, Artist

"I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you"

Martha Beck, Author

"There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life"

Herman Hesse, Author

"I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

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