Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
I haven’t mastered the art of sitting and smiling.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it’s our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.
I love beautiful things. I’m not into art so much, like paintings.
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it’s highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
I was a product of Andy Warhol’s Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
The best artists know what to leave out.
Knowing how to dress is an art.
In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren’t usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It’s structures and patterns, and that’s what we love, and that’s what we get off on.
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you’re putting out there, if it’s received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it’s not received, great, I respect you for not.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Art is what defines us, what makes us human.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
We’re all works of art in progress.
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn’t be nearly as interesting.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.