Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.
In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.
Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.
There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?
That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.
To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.
I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.
I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.
You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].
The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.
Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.
We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
Im inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.
Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.
At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.
It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.
Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.
George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.