Quotes on Art

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

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

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?