Quotes about art
art able invisible
To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art. Hans Hofmann
art movement force
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.
art lying expression
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.
art giving creative
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.
art expression profound
Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience.
art world emotion
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
art optimistic talent
The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I’m optimistic. Hal David
art math emotional
People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. Hal Sparks
artist dust people
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
artist names hearing
I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me. Gretchen Wilson
art giving-up real
It's so hard for people to give up their cell phones or their ideas of being connected to everything all the time in order to get an immersive experience. That's the best way to make art. It's almost like you have to treat it like you're going into a submarine, and Noah Baumbach totally agrees with that. There's not a real other life that happens outside of the movie while it's being shot, which I like. Greta Gerwig
art book people
I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny.
art truth ignorance
Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest and severe in your self-appraisal. Learn the art of learning, and you are well on the way to achievement. True greatness is reflective, not assertive.
art ohio-state heritage
The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts. Gordon Gee
art inspire soul
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
art communication speech
We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech. Gordon Brown
art couple home
The Voice of Heaven is a still small voice. The voice of peace in the home is a quiet voice. There is need for much discipline in marriage, not of one's companion, but of oneself... When couples cultivate the art of the soft answer, it blesses their home, their life together, and their companionship. Gordon B. Hinckley
art engineering law
Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.
art media light
There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me. Glen Campbell
art stupid taken
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid Giuseppe Verdi
art eye joy
I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
art neighbor good-neighbor
Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer. Gladys Taber
art lying men
Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it otherwise, what would be the use or value of art? Giuseppe Mazzini
art doe
Art does not imitate, but interpret.
art fun analysis
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away. Geri Halliwell
art ambition home
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions. Geraldine Brooks
art practice mma
There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to. Georges St-Pierre
art humility mma
Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.
art mma goal
My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.
art obstacles failing
It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
art army fighting
I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.
art creative age
Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . . Harriet Monroe
art mean writing
"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.