Quotes on Art

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.