Quotes on Art

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.

What can art really do in the face of atrocity?

Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk into a dojo and say to your sensei, 'Hey, salut tabarnac!' After every one of my fights I go and shake the hand of my opponent. I don't need to hate the other fighter to fight him well. It's a sport.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.