Quotes about Real Art

The real art of conducting consists in transitions. Votes: 3

You'll need to suffer to make any real art. Votes: 3

... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away. Votes: 3

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager. Votes: 3

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. Votes: 3

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy. Votes: 3

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing. Votes: 3

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. Votes: 3

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in. Votes: 3

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things. Votes: 3

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Votes: 3

Any fool can masturbate, but it takes a real artist to make it look like sex. Votes: 3

When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period. Votes: 3

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. Votes: 3

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them. Votes: 3

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. Votes: 3

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet. Votes: 3

A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory. Votes: 3

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Votes: 3

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not. Votes: 3

I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically. Votes: 3

My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele. Votes: 3

Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist. Votes: 3

I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art. Votes: 3

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it. Votes: 3

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive. Votes: 3

The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork. Votes: 3

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism. Votes: 3

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it. Votes: 3

I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers. Votes: 3

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job. Votes: 3

Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict. Votes: 3

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it. Votes: 3

I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity. Votes: 3

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons. Votes: 3

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it” Votes: 3

Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries. Votes: 3

A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture? Votes: 3

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting. Votes: 3

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician. Votes: 3

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects. Votes: 3

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today. Votes: 3

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor. Votes: 3

I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young. Votes: 3

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur. Votes: 3

Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished. Votes: 3

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know? Votes: 3

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head. Votes: 3

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. Votes: 3

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so. Votes: 3

We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace. Votes: 3

The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, "God painting His storyboard on the sky". Votes: 3

Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible. Votes: 3

Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me. Votes: 3

Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more to bring real art, passions, teachings, caring, and resources into the emptiness of young peoples' lives. Votes: 3

I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person. Votes: 3

Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and amazement at the tools that are available to you can inspire generosity and creativity and connection Votes: 3

Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity. Votes: 3

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York. Votes: 3

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. Votes: 3

Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached. Votes: 3

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. Votes: 3

It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation. Votes: 3

I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the way you function in society, your beliefs and the way you live, that is where you will find a real musician, a real artist. Votes: 3

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch. Votes: 3

The timing of comedy is so difficult. You've got to leave room for a laugh, you don't want to kill the laugh, but on film, you can't just suddenly stop for a laugh and then carry on. So, I think it's a real art form, comedy on film. Votes: 3

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss. Votes: 1

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know. Votes: 1

There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic. Votes: 1

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. Votes: 1

Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing. Votes: 1

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within. Votes: 1

Making reality real is art's responsibility. Votes: 0

Real art must always involve some witchcraft. Votes: 0

Real success is making art your whole life. Votes: 0

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. Votes: 0

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth. Votes: 0

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life. Votes: 0

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant. Votes: 0

All art forms employ some means through which images become real. Votes: 0

Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones. Votes: 0

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Votes: 0

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. Votes: 0

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art. Votes: 0

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art. Votes: 0

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate. Votes: 0

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. Votes: 0

I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time. Votes: 0

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being. Votes: 0

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form. Votes: 0

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible. Votes: 0

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness Votes: 0

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. Votes: 0

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real. Votes: 0

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. Votes: 0

The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art. Votes: 0

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. Votes: 0

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. Votes: 0

The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it. Votes: 0

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough. Votes: 0

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. Votes: 0

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. Votes: 0

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. Votes: 0

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art Votes: 0

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. Votes: 0

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business. Votes: 0

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. Votes: 0

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul. Votes: 0

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life. Votes: 0

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. Votes: 0

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others. Votes: 0

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Votes: 0

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art. Votes: 0

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother? Votes: 0

That's one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing's real, it just lives. Votes: 0

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art Votes: 0

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary. Votes: 0

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. Votes: 0

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist." Votes: 0

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen. Votes: 0

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy. Votes: 0

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. Votes: 0

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. Votes: 0

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. Votes: 0

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. Votes: 0

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. Votes: 0

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real. Votes: 0

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.' Votes: 0

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that. Votes: 0

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. Votes: 0

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life Votes: 0

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things. Votes: 0

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. Votes: 0

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. Votes: 0

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. Votes: 0

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real. Votes: 0

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. Votes: 0

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. Votes: 0

My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life. Votes: 0

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art. Votes: 0

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. Votes: 0

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking. Votes: 0

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler. Votes: 0

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it. Votes: 0

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy? Votes: 0

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form. Votes: 0

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art. Votes: 0

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit. Votes: 0

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing. Votes: 0

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost. Votes: 0

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Votes: 0

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not. Votes: 0

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. Votes: 0

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement. Votes: 0

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon. Votes: 0

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon. Votes: 0

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window. Votes: 0

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it. Votes: 0

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy. Votes: 0

After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist. Votes: 0

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen. Votes: 0

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. Votes: 0

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is. Votes: 0

It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art. Votes: 0

The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art Votes: 0

Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are. Votes: 0

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively. Votes: 0

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not. Votes: 0

Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined. Votes: 0

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals! Votes: 0

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it. Votes: 0

Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art prices, to see what the leading edge of hyperinflation could look like. Votes: 0

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world. Votes: 0

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures. Votes: 0

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity. Votes: 0