Art Quotes

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

Art is significant deformity.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

I guess some fans like art and get it, others are just into the music, don't really turn up and have an opinion. The fans that have shown interest are all with me all the way.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Balance is the enemy of art.

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

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.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.