Famous Quotes & Sayings

Auguste Rodin

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

Auguste Rodin

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

Auguste Rodin

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

Auguste Rodin

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Auguste Rodin

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Auguste Rodin

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Auguste Rodin

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.

Auguste Rodin

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

Auguste Rodin

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Auguste Rodin

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

Auguste Rodin

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

Auguste Rodin

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Arthur Lowe

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

Arthur Koestler

Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.

Arthur Koestler

All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.

Arthur Koestler

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Miller

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

Arthur Miller

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

Arthur Miller

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Arthur Miller

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Arthur Miller

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

Arthur Miller

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

Arthur Miller

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Artemisia Gentileschi

As long as i live i will have control over my being

Art Garfunkel

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

Art Spiegelman

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

Art Spiegelman

I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.

Art Linkletter

Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Arthur Ashe

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

Azar Nafisi

Art is as useful as bread.

Azar Nafisi

Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes burlesque for factory theatres, does a hundred other useful tasks. Art is as usueful as bread.

Azar Nafisi

In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.