Quotes about what is Art

But what is art other than revealing human nature? Votes: 3

The art of politics is knowing what to do next. Votes: 3

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. Votes: 3

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations. Votes: 3

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art. Votes: 3

What is art but a way of seeing? Votes: 2

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. Votes: 2

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Votes: 2

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that. Votes: 2

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. Votes: 2

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? Votes: 2

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become. Votes: 2

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal. Votes: 2

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs. Votes: 2

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap. Votes: 2

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within. Votes: 2

What is art? Prostitution. Votes: 1

What is art? Nature concentrated. Votes: 1

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art. Votes: 1

What I'm good at is making art. Votes: 1

Art is what you can get away with. Votes: 1

People in misery is what most important in art. Votes: 1

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive. Votes: 1

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see. Votes: 1

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. Votes: 1

The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear. Votes: 1

Art is what is irresistible. Votes: 0

Art accepts what it finds. Votes: 0

What thou art, that thou art. Votes: 0

We by art unteach what Nature taught. Votes: 0

What-e're thou art, Act well thy part. Votes: 0

Art is what separates us from the animals. Votes: 0

Organized perception is what art is all about. Votes: 0

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. Votes: 0

Art consists in making others feel what we feel. Votes: 0

What matters in art is not thinking but making. Votes: 0

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty. Votes: 0

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. Votes: 0

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. Votes: 0

Art is what we do when we're truly alive. Votes: 0

What I dream of is an art of balance. Votes: 0

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take. Votes: 0

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is. Votes: 0

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art Votes: 0

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art. Votes: 0

A community of people, that's the really what art school is. Votes: 0

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. Votes: 0

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are. Votes: 0

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art. Votes: 0

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. Votes: 0

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist. Votes: 0

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money. Votes: 0

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. Votes: 0

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession! Votes: 0

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do. Votes: 0

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important. Votes: 0

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work. Votes: 0

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. Votes: 0

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. Votes: 0

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind. Votes: 0

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. Votes: 0

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art. Votes: 0

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun! Votes: 0

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art! Votes: 0

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin. Votes: 0

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens? Votes: 0

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become. Votes: 0

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life. Votes: 0

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it. Votes: 0

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Votes: 0

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for. Votes: 0

What does art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions. Votes: 0

I don’t know about art but I know what I like Votes: 0

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap. Votes: 0

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art. Votes: 0

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art Votes: 0

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life. Votes: 0

The art of acting is to be other than what you are. Votes: 0

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it. Votes: 0

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss. Votes: 0

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. Votes: 0

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Votes: 0

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. Votes: 0

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art. Votes: 0

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive. Votes: 0

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind? Votes: 0

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft. Votes: 0

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. Votes: 0

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands. Votes: 0

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better. Votes: 0

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see. Votes: 0

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. Votes: 0

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art. Votes: 0

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?" Votes: 0

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good. Votes: 0

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. Votes: 0

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive. Votes: 0

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art. Votes: 0

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible. Votes: 0

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. Votes: 0

...the art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about... Votes: 0

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive. Votes: 0

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art. Votes: 0

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. Votes: 0

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you. Votes: 0

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first? Votes: 0

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for. Votes: 0

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do. Votes: 0

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom. Votes: 0

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God. Votes: 0

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art. Votes: 0

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Votes: 0

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. Votes: 0

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life. Votes: 0

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. Votes: 0

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day. Votes: 0

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations. Votes: 0

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. Votes: 0

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood. Votes: 0

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries. Votes: 0

Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. Votes: 0

Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly. Votes: 0

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. Votes: 0

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know. Votes: 0

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt. Votes: 0

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system. Votes: 0

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature. Votes: 0

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception. Votes: 0

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen. Votes: 0

Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into Votes: 0

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? Votes: 0

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me. Votes: 0

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in. Votes: 0

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind. Votes: 0

Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. Votes: 0

I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me. Votes: 0

God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like. Votes: 0

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Votes: 0

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. Votes: 0

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. Votes: 0

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. Votes: 0

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. Votes: 0

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like. Votes: 0

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. Votes: 0

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective. Votes: 0

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people. Votes: 0

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important. Votes: 0

I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to. Votes: 0

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art. Votes: 0

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another. Votes: 0

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. Votes: 0

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability? Votes: 0

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority Votes: 0

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans. Votes: 0

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. Votes: 0

My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music Votes: 0

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like. Votes: 0

Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue. Votes: 0

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it. Votes: 0

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love. Votes: 0

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art Votes: 0

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself. Votes: 0

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope. Votes: 0

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive. Votes: 0

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Votes: 0

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art. Votes: 0

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me. Votes: 0

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art. Votes: 0

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art. Votes: 0

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human. Votes: 0

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. Votes: 0

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. Votes: 0

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. Votes: 0

Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. Votes: 0

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings. Votes: 0

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is. Votes: 0

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts. Votes: 0

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. Votes: 0

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Votes: 0

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? Votes: 0

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. Votes: 0

What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet. Votes: 0

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected. Votes: 0

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about Votes: 0

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know Votes: 0

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. Votes: 0

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable. Votes: 0

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist. Votes: 0

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Votes: 0

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36) Votes: 0

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live. Votes: 0

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. Votes: 0

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. Votes: 0

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them. Votes: 0

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away? Votes: 0

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain? Votes: 0

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. Votes: 0

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace. Votes: 0

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something. Votes: 0

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. Votes: 0

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

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others. Votes: 0

The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. Votes: 0

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool? Votes: 0

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please! Votes: 0

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. Votes: 0

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite. Votes: 0

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. Votes: 0

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique. Votes: 0

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. Votes: 0

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not. Votes: 0

What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well. Votes: 0

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it. Votes: 0

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us Votes: 0

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

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it? Votes: 0

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist. Votes: 0

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. Votes: 0

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see. Votes: 0

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively. Votes: 0

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. Votes: 0

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art! Votes: 0

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. Votes: 0

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. Votes: 0

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions. Votes: 0

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics. Votes: 0

Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself. Votes: 0

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition. Votes: 0

A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have. Votes: 0

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering. Votes: 0

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth "” Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? Votes: 0

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives. Votes: 0

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of. Votes: 0

Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends Votes: 0

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. Votes: 0

Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f"” you're doing Votes: 0

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself. Votes: 0

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. Votes: 0

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill. Votes: 0

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art. Votes: 0

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in. Votes: 0

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports. Votes: 0

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not. Votes: 0

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave. Votes: 0

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour. Votes: 0

The love of the art is what keeps me going. It's that sound that runs through my bones. Votes: 0

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. Votes: 0

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. Votes: 0

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else Votes: 0

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? Votes: 0

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. Votes: 0

Art is not so much talent as character"¦ it's what you are, the qualities of the person. Votes: 0

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. Votes: 0

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal. Votes: 0

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. Votes: 0

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena Votes: 0

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render. Votes: 0

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. Votes: 0

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it. Votes: 0

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it. Votes: 0

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough~? Votes: 0

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. Votes: 0

The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact. Votes: 0

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art. Votes: 0

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. Votes: 0

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. Votes: 0

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn. Votes: 0

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection. Votes: 0

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing. Votes: 0

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest. Votes: 0

Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible. Votes: 0

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be. Votes: 0

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso? Votes: 0

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. Votes: 0

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art. Votes: 0

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head Votes: 0

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired. Votes: 0

Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move. Votes: 0

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! Votes: 0

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. Votes: 0

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want. Votes: 0

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat. Votes: 0

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. Votes: 0

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way. Votes: 0

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. Votes: 0

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think. Votes: 0

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. Votes: 0

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most. Votes: 0

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. Votes: 0

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were. Votes: 0

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable. Votes: 0

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it. Votes: 0

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. Votes: 0

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art. Votes: 0

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction. Votes: 0

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do. Votes: 0

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

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out. Votes: 0

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience? Votes: 0

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible. Votes: 0

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. Votes: 0

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. Votes: 0

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. Votes: 0

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more. Votes: 0

I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations. Votes: 0

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do. Votes: 0

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. Votes: 0

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless. Votes: 0

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean. Votes: 0

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way. Votes: 0

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do. Votes: 0

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire. Votes: 0

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art. Votes: 0

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it. Votes: 0

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about. Votes: 0

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages. Votes: 0

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do. Votes: 0

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. Votes: 0

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good. Votes: 0

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Votes: 0

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear. Votes: 0

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom. Votes: 0

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Votes: 0

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it. Votes: 0

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. Votes: 0

So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid. Votes: 0

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art. Votes: 0

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want. Votes: 0

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. Votes: 0

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later. Votes: 0

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form. Votes: 0

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance. Votes: 0

What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater. Votes: 0

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does. Votes: 0

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art. Votes: 0

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean? Votes: 0

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. Votes: 0

I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War. Votes: 0

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. Votes: 0

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. Votes: 0

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Votes: 0

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves. Votes: 0

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. Votes: 0

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art. Votes: 0

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here. Votes: 0

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity. Votes: 0

Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed. Votes: 0

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean. Votes: 0

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. Votes: 0

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make. 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

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have. Votes: 0

I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us. Votes: 0

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see? Votes: 0

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. Votes: 0

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness. Votes: 0

Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art. Votes: 0

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. Votes: 0

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. Votes: 0

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. Votes: 0

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. Votes: 0

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do. Votes: 0

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. Votes: 0

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting. Votes: 0

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. Votes: 0

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity." Votes: 0

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. Votes: 0

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition. Votes: 0

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart. Votes: 0

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. Votes: 0

He says,'Why is it love, Esther? Why call it that?''Because. Why is what you do art? Because you say so. Votes: 0

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise. Votes: 0

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist Votes: 0

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. Votes: 0

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist. Votes: 0

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime. Votes: 0

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. Votes: 0

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear. Votes: 0

I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming. Votes: 0

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs. Votes: 0

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems. Votes: 0

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success. Votes: 0

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two. Votes: 0

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life. Votes: 0

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film. Votes: 0

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man. Votes: 0

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. Votes: 0

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student. Votes: 0

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished. Votes: 0

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing. Votes: 0

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state. Votes: 0

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum. Votes: 0

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum." Votes: 0

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art. Votes: 0

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do. Votes: 0

...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art. Votes: 0

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented. Votes: 0

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament. Votes: 0

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. Votes: 0

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does. Votes: 0

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. Votes: 0

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental. Votes: 0

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers. Votes: 0

The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for. Votes: 0

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. Votes: 0

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible. Votes: 0

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art? Votes: 0

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does. Votes: 0

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. Votes: 0

What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art. Votes: 0

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is. Votes: 0

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art. Votes: 0

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet. Votes: 0

I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy. Votes: 0

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. Votes: 0

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can. Votes: 0

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. Votes: 0

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings. Votes: 0

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound Votes: 0

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. Votes: 0

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else. Votes: 0

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out. Votes: 0

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up. Votes: 0

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained. Votes: 0

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel. Votes: 0

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been. Votes: 0

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument. Votes: 0

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. Votes: 0

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper. Votes: 0

We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town. Votes: 0

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art. Votes: 0

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value. Votes: 0

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art. Votes: 0

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art. Votes: 0

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it. Votes: 0

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art. Votes: 0

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. Votes: 0

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. Votes: 0

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art. Votes: 0

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool. Votes: 0

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Votes: 0

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things. Votes: 0

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely. Votes: 0

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture. Votes: 0

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone. Votes: 0

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be. Votes: 0

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way. Votes: 0

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few. Votes: 0

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace. Votes: 0

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work. Votes: 0

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons. Votes: 0

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. Votes: 0

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge. Votes: 0

Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on? Votes: 0

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from. Votes: 0

Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert. Votes: 0

I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me. 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

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film. Votes: 0

Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck. Votes: 0

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi. Votes: 0

I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art. Votes: 0

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. Votes: 0

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art. Votes: 0

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know. Votes: 0

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art. Votes: 0

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty? Votes: 0

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? Votes: 0

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art. Votes: 0

This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for? Votes: 0

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother. Votes: 0

My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there. Votes: 0

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them. Votes: 0

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want. Votes: 0

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things... Votes: 0

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth. Votes: 0

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself. Votes: 0

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being. Votes: 0

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. Votes: 0

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist. Votes: 0

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist. Votes: 0

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality. Votes: 0

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist. Votes: 0

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one? Votes: 0

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life. Votes: 0

Shadow conceals"”light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art. Votes: 0

We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall. 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

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war. Votes: 0

I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have. Votes: 0

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that. Votes: 0

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do. Votes: 0

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms. Votes: 0

What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it. Votes: 0

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level. Votes: 0

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art. Votes: 0

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you. Votes: 0

Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me. Votes: 0

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life? Votes: 0

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way. Votes: 0