Quotes about art
art nature mean
Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
art mean crafts
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
art ideas experience
Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
art giving judging
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
art science religion
If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
art giving poetry
Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
art spring poetry
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
art women mit
For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
art women mistress
Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
art religion majesty
Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.
art religion art-and-science
He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.
art believe men
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."
art book reading
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
art skills tricks
No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.
art learning hands
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
art vision spirit
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
art limits oneself
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
art work works-of-art
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
art artist personality
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
artist silence
Create, artist, do not talk.
art would-be understood
It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
art purpose demand
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
art enough good-enough
In art, the best is good enough.
art long helping
God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
art world method
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
art men world
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
art science world
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
art science religion
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
artist suffering energy
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.
art drama school
I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in a drama club in the evenings. Then I discovered you didn't need qualifications to go to art school, you just needed a body of work. Joe Wright
art political action
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
art division film
I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
artist skills doors
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while youre waiting to kick the door down.