Top 100 Art Practice Quotes
#1. My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
#3. My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.
Mark Bradford
#4. It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
Deanna Petherbridge
#5. No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
Emma Anderson
#6. They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.
Francis Bacon
#7. I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?
Mark Bradford
#8. The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.
Thomas Young
#9. All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.
Henry Moore
#10. I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all things, because you have learned how to learn. I can think of no more worthwhile pursuit of education.
Chris Matakas
#11. First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#12. Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
Peter F. Drucker
#13. Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art should do. That's what great philosophy should do. The one thing about humour is that this is an everyday practice that does this.
Simon Critchley
#14. But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
Aldous Huxley
#15. If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.
David Deida
#16. All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good.
Louise Hay
#17. Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.
Shahzia Sikander
#18. There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
Nathan Sawaya
#19. As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
Tony Kushner
#20. ...love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy.
Hannah Mary Rothschild
#21. Here in France, you must practice the art of accomplishing much while appearing to accomplish little. (in the John Adams miniseries on HBO)
Benjamin Franklin
#22. A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.
Amit Kalantri
#23. It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.
Rosanna Arquette
#24. A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves.
Michael Gerber
#25. To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness, and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the universe, your family, Mother nature, and your fellow human beings.
Morihei Ueshiba
#26. An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.
Peter London
#27. Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.
Og Mandino
#28. ...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.
Miles J. Unger
#29. The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for reforms, their memoranda carried little weight with an idle aristocracy.
Joan Stanley-Baker
#30. PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
Ambrose Bierce
#31. Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.
William James
#32. Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
James Altucher
#33. PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.
Morihei Ueshiba
#34. When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc.; now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.
William C. Brown
#35. INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.
Morihei Ueshiba
#36. Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
Anton Seidl
#37. If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.
Rashad Evans
#38. One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.
Mas Oyama
#39. A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence. Talking, no matter how humble-seeming, is really a kind of bragging. Let silence be the art you practice. #54, I SEE THE FACE
Rumi
#40. Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.
Samuel Hahnemann
#41. Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.
William Blake
#42. Quit the bitching on your blog
And stop pretending art is hard.
Just limit yourself to three chords
And do not practice daily.
You'll minimize some stranger's sadness
With a piece of wood and plastic.
Holy fuck it's so fantastic,
Playing ukulele.
Amanda Palmer
#43. Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.
Shakti Gawain
#44. You have no finesse," a gambler at the Silver Garter once said to him. "No technique."
"Sure I do," Kaz had responded. "I practice the art of 'pull his shirt over his head and punch till you see blood.
Leigh Bardugo
#45. The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
Aristotle.
#46. The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.
Henry Miller
#47. In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science.
Michael Leunig
#48. The Art of a Relationship Living in a city is an art, not a science. Choosing to live in a city is choosing to enter into a relationship with it. And, like any human relationship, the relationship you have with your city is one that requires nurturing, constant practice and work.
The School Of Life
#49. Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
David Seabury
#50. Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.
Jeffrey Kluger
#51. How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.
Ernest Henry Wilson
#52. There is a saying in Bali: "We have no art. We do everything as beautifully as possible." This reflects my philosophy of practice. I try to remember daily what a gift it is to have the privilege of living in this wondrous world.
Sam Keen
#53. The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Clinton
#54. The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropiate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.
Josef Muller-Brockmann
#55. Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#57. Stop over-thinking, put more energy on what you really want to do.
Amit Ray
#58. I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918
Tristan Tzara
#59. Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.
A.W. Tozer
#60. In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
W. Somerset Maugham
#61. You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn those things or you can't practice the art.
Tod Machover
#62. No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.
Tiffany Madison
#63. Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.
Ken Baumann
#64. It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.
Frederick Lenz
#65. For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.
Liz Williams
#66. To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.
Gichin Funakoshi
#67. There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.
Grimes
#68. The art of love is like your painting, it requires technique, patience, and above all, practice by the couple. It requires boldness, the courage to go beyond what people conventionally call making love.
Paulo Coelho
#69. The practice of "reviewing" ... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
Henry James
#70. Some people may be more gifted than others, but excellence in writing, as in any art form or craft, involves discipline and practice.
James B. Stewart
#72. That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
Damien Hirst
#73. The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.
David Bayles
#74. There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.
Georges St-Pierre
#75. We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.
Art Garfunkel
#76. What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
Robert Browning
#77. It [angling] deserves commendations; ... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
Izaak Walton
#78. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization BY PETER M. SENGE
Daniel H. Pink
#79. Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet
Henry Mintzberg
#80. Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.
Anupam Kher
#81. All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#82. People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
Kurt Vonnegut
#83. Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#84. There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.
Max De Pree
#85. ALWAYS PRACTICE the Art of Peace in a vibrant and joyful manner.
Morihei Ueshiba
#86. When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition.
Steven Pressfield
#87. Tarot is a practice rich with history and cultural knowledge. It is a science of the mind.
Benebell Wen
#88. Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.
Frederick Lenz
#90. Most cowgirls are natural storytellers, their art honed by years of practice ... It serves as entertainment; it also preserves the humor and value of a unique way of life.
Teresa Jordan
#91. Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.
Pietro Aretino
#93. Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.
Tyra Banks
#94. As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?
Stephen King
#95. Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.
Kathryn Bigelow
#96. In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.
Wilferd Peterson
#97. Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it's a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.
Sol Luckman
#98. Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.
Meredith Monk
#99. The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.
Mark Nepo
#100. Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning.
Gichin Funakoshi
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