Art Quotes

"I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him"

Freddie Hubbard, Musician

"Art is I; science is we"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man"

Billie Burke, Actress

"Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution"

Barbara Hepworth, Artist

"Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift"

Anton Seidl, Musician

"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"

Billie Burke, Actress

"Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude"

Beck, Musician

"Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way"

David Frost, Journalist

"We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out"

Benny Green, Musician

"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion"

Ralph W. Sockman, Leader

"I cry out for order and find it only in art"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty"

Jacqueline Bisset, Actress

"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge"

Benjamin Jowett, Theologian

"Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"Art and science have their meeting point in method"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come"

Greg Akcelrod, Athlete

"My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

"I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art"

Mary Baker Eddy, Theologian

"It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us"

Huston Smith, Theologian

"Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science"

Bruno Bettelheim, Writer

"As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation"

Adelbert von Chamisso, Poet

"The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art"

Thom Mayne, Architect

"So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture"

Thom Mayne, Architect

"So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position"

Thom Mayne, Architect

"It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world"

Thom Mayne, Architect

"Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art"

Thom Mayne, Architect

"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready"

Eugenio Montale, Poet

"Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry"

Eugenio Montale, Poet

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