Art Quotes - page 6

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. View quote
Susan Sontag
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. View quote
Karlheinz Stockhausen
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong. View quote
Lucian Freud
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream. View quote
Giorgio de Chirico
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. View quote
Simone Weil
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. View quote
Henry Taylor
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. (Ezra Pound)
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. View quote
Alexander Pope
Art must take reality by surprise. View quote
Françoise Sagan
Our father who art in heaven Stay there And we will stay here on earth Which is sometimes so pretty. View quote
Jacques Prévert
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. View quote
Edmund Burke
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. View quote
Robert Frost
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. View quote
Josef Albers
In art economy is always beauty. View quote
Henry James
We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. View quote
Henry James
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art. View quote
Donald Knuth
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. (John Ruskin)
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. View quote
Henry Miller
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. View quote
Gertrude Stein