She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
All art is erotic.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools – only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
Every single day, I wake up and take a glimpse of where I am now compared to where I was before, and the work that we have all put in to be in this space. I think of that, and being able to express myself through my art and show up and be present – that’s activism, advocacy, and artistry in itself.
When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, ‘The Art of Captaincy.’ I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don’t make you good captains.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
Art is made in hindsight.
You don’t have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren’t any hidden secrets or things that you’re supposed to understand.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum. That’s why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Art is all a matter of personality.
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
All good art is an indiscretion.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’
All great art is born of the metropolis.
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I’ve always called myself an illustrator. I’m not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
There hasn’t been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what’s already there.
I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
Every art I do is a collage.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire – but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
To be creative means to connect. It’s to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
It’s an art to live with pain… mix the light into gray.
The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman’s art points to the beauty of the craftsman’s attributes manifested in that art.
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It’s better than art because it’s from the creator.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
The temple of art is built in words.
They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
