Art Quotes

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with h…

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated e…

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

What is art but a way of seeing?

I view art as an inspirational tool.

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of …

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.