Art Quotes

"There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population"

Pat Oliphant, Cartoonist

"Pitching is the art of instilling fear"

Sandy Koufax, Athlete

"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind"

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus, Scientist

"The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact"

Wyndham Lewis, Author

"That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen"

Elle Fanning, Actress

"As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction"

Stan Getz, Musician

"Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat"

Mario Batali, Celebrity

"The art of pleasing is the art of deception"

Luc de Clapiers, Writer

"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"We want to raise the art of living well"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport"

Katarina Witt, Athlete

"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself"

Paul Daniels, Entertainer

"It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know"

James Lipton, Educator

"Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece"

Ludwig Erhard, Politician

"Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life"

Phil Ochs, Musician

"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public"

James Broughton, Director

"It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it"

Ellen Willis, Writer

"By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile"

James H. Breasted

"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster"

Thomas Guthrie, Clergyman

"If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?"

Robert Barclay, Writer

"A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience"

Guy Kawasaki, Businessman

"It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

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