Quotes About Art

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.