Quotes on Art

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.