Quotes About Art

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.

A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

Learning how to weigh evidence and fairly re-establish a boundary can be as much an art as a science.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

You really can't bring about anything new with art

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.