Quotes About Art

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.

I was good at art - always good at art.

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.

I collect a lot of art.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

Learn not only the rules of art, but 'when' and 'how' to break them.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

Repetition is the death of art.