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Quotes About World

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
~ Francois Rabelais
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.
~ Margaret Bourke-White
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
~ Tommy Chong
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
~ Jerry Saltz
It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.
~ Richard Corliss
Art changes people people change the world.
~ Unknown
We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
~ Chris Ware
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
~ Samuel Beckett
Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.
~ Nastia Liukin
I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.
~ David Oyelowo
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.
~ L. E. J. Brouwer
Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
~ Unknown
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.
~ Jeffrey Deitch
One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.
~ Jeffrey Deitch
Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.
~ Dana Gioia
Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.
~ Guy Davenport
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
~ Hermann Hesse
Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.
~ Joseph C Zinker
I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.
~ Unknown
My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.
~ Rachel Kushner
The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.
~ Robert Crumb