Quotes About Art

The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".

There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.

Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

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.