Quotes About Art

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.