Quotes about art
art pain light
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. Eddie Vedder
art reading writing
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot. Ed McBain
art gains martial-arts
Gain confidence and you banish fear. Ed Parker
art causes happens
The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.
art men students
The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.
art humility self
Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo
art forever mind
I am not going to show you my art. I am going to share it with you. If I show it to you it becomes an exhibition, and in time it will be pushed so far into the back of your mind that it will be lost. But by sharing it with you, you will not only retain it forever, but I too will improve.
art ships size
Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.
art believe humble
The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.
art your-loss losing
The art of losing isn't hard to master. Elizabeth Bishop
art delicate-things roaring
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?
art self useless
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.
art doors keys
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.
art cutting loss
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
art children air
I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again. Elizabeth Bowen
art home theatre
Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.
art crafts novel
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft ...
artist ornaments unthinkable
... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
art hurt memorable
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
art feelings literature
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
art class fiction
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
art judging cooking
I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art! Elinor Wylie
art lying patient
All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient. Eliphas Levi
art helping share
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art. Eleanora Duse
artist soul revelations
All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul
art drama air
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.
art understanding teach
Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.
art tradition conventions
Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.
art theatre actors
To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
art order relate
Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate. Elfriede Jelinek
art holiday fine
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
art medicine belief
Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief. Deepak Chopra
art inspire exposing
I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me. Dominic Monaghan