Art Quotes

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

Saul Williams

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.

Shawn Ryan

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

Christina Westover

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

Source Unknown

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Source Unknown

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

Source Unknown

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkner

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

Dennis Conner

I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

Norman Mailer

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective.

Vera Nazarian

Any fool can be happy.It takes a man w a real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep

Clive Barker

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Viggo Mortensen

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art a euphemism tamed wilderness.

Dejan Stojanovic

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Robert Musil

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Ray Bradbury

They say that truth is naked. I cannot admit this for any but abstract truths; in the arts, all truths are produced by methods which show the hand of the artist.

Eugene Delacroix

Love-making is an art which must be studied.

Ivor Novello

Nomadom je postao onda kada je o omjeru ljepote po?eo razmišljati kao o ljubavnom odnosu izme?u dvaju dijelova u kojem se suprotnosti privla?e upravo magi?nom snagom, a isti omjer jednako gospodari i arhitekturom i prirodom.

Jasna Horvat

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

Peter Viereck