Explore Quotes on Art

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.

Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings--and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

I view my hair and clothes as functional art.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

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

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.