Quotes About Art

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.