Art Quotes

"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic"

"I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting"

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

"It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul"

Robert Redford, Actor

"Directing is a tremendous art"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language"

William Osler, Scientist

"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability"

William Osler, Scientist

"I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art"

Ice Cube, Musician

"And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power"

Jacky Ickx, Celebrity

"We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

"These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life"

Letitia Landon

"In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art"

Halle Berry, Actress

"Life is God's art"

Larry Norman, Musician

"Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists"

Lara St. John, Musician

"I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear"

John Mayall, Musician

"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country"

Richard Briers, Actor

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing"

Warren Cuccurullo, Musician

"Of course, in the art class, I was the model"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own"

Michael Palin, Comedian

"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art"

Clara Schumann, Musician

"It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction"

Matthew Modine, Actor

"You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art"

Kit Williams, Author

"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed"

Robert C. Gallagher, Author

"I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind"

Richard Price, Writer

"Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within"

Edith Hamilton, Writer

"The fact is that even art is subject to fashion"

Hugo Pratt, Cartoonist

"The interpretation of dreams is a great art"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism"

Judy Chicago, Artist

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