Quotes About Art

Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal.

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

Common Lisp is politics, not art.

There exists no more difficult art than living.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.