Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Sitwell

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ...

Edith Sitwell

"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."

Edith Sitwell

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

Edith Sitwell

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Edith Sitwell

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Edith Sitwell

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

Edith Wharton

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Edith Wharton

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

Edith Wharton

I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.

Edith Wharton

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

Edith Wharton

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Eddie Murphy

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

Eddie Murphy

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

Dawn Powell

The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.

Dean Acheson

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

David Walker

I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.

David Walker

Karate is for life, not points.

David Rockefeller

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

David Rockefeller

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

David Horowitz

In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.

David Horowitz

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

David Hilbert

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality

David Hockney

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

David Hockney

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

David Hockney

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

David Hockney

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

David Hockney

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

David Hockney

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

David Hockney

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

David Hockney

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

David Hockney

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

David Hockney

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.