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Quotes About Art

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
~ Rumi
Creativity is a spiritual issue.
~ Julia Cameron
The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.
~ Susan Sontag
Art-making is an extension of the kind of spiritual process that shamans unfold in order to demonstrate the connectedness of the world beyond reality.
~ Hyon Gyon
Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.
~ Kevin Russo
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
~ E'yen A. Gardner
A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
~ Mario Botta
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
~ Michael Leunig
Art is the path to being spiritual.
~ Piet Mondrian
For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.
~ Kano Jigoro
A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.
~ Serge Nubret
Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!
~ Bill Brandt
I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
~ Bill Brandt
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
~ George Foreman
Bodybuilding is not only a sport but first an ART.
~ Serge Nubret
Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.
~ Marvin Hagler
The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
~ Lord Byron
The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.
~ Heath Ledger
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
~ Casey Stengel
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
~ Roger Bannister
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
~ Oksana Baiul
Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.
~ Michael Moriarty