Quotes About Art

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.

A true artist is an ugly man.

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.