Quotes About Art

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.