Quotes About Art

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

The motion picture is the people's Art.

I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

Art changes people people change the world.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.