Quotes About Art

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.

Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.

The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.

For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

Sleep is no mean art.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting

It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.