Explore Quotes on Art

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

I went to art school when I was little.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.