Quotes About Art

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

All my works are games, serious game.

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.