Quotes About Art

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.

A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don't understand, is not a critique.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all answers.It comes from being open to all questions.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.