Quotes about art
art results advantage
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance Francois de La Rochefoucauld
art play quality
The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.
art philosophy passion
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
art passion dine-in
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. Jim Dine
artist because-i-can wells
I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly. Jerry Lawler
art past government
People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce. Jeremy Hunt
art prayer distance
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer. Jennifer Haigh
art crazy college
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy. Jennifer Garner
art warning facts
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship. Jeff Buckley
art messages receiving
I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film. Jeff Bridges
artist giving actors
It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.
art america childhood
One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.
art philosophy history
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose. Jean-Paul Sartre
art philosophy responsibility
Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.
artist color quality
For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.
art boxing half
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. Georges Carpentier
art looks substance
One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another. Georges Clemenceau
art honor ornithology
[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology. Georges Cuvier
art skills weight
I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman. Georges Braque
art work weather
One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.
art bits one-thing
In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
art
Art disturbs, science reassures.
art function art-is
The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
art believe color
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.
art definitions substitutes
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
art lying progress
In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.
art knowing progress
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
art reality creating
One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.
art irreparable-harm quality
To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.
art destiny accepting
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
art emotion plus
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.
art ideas nails
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
art age mastery
With age, art and life become one.