Art Transcends Quotes

#1. I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Aleksandar Hemon

#2. Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

Madeleine L'Engle

#3. A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives.

A.D. Posey

#4. Art transcends politics this weekend.

Barbra Streisand

#5. Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Fannie Hurst

#6. Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

Flannery O'Connor

#7. The lesson of this life is not for me to touch you again. It is to accept who I am now and not feel shame.

Francesca Lia Block

#8. When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

John Owen

#9. Music happens to be an art form that transcends language

Herbie Hancock

#10. The city of Rome is called the "city of seven hills" and the Vatican is located within its confinement. These are the hills: Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Aventine, Esquiline, Viminal, and Caelian.

Robert Rite

#11. True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

Bruce Lee

#12. I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

Tony Hawk

#13. Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.

Okakura Kakuzo

#14. St. Hierotheos, the great teacher quoted by Dionysius in his book on Divine Names: "As form giving form to all that is formless, in so far as It is the principle of form, the Divine Nature of the Christ is none the less formless in all that has form, since It transcends all form....

Titus Burckhardt

#15. My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

Anita Baker

#16. What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things ...

Tracey Emin

#17. I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

John Milius

#18. The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality ... The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a work of art which possesses a lasting cultural value. The method leading to universal form is based upon calculations of measure and number.

Theo Van Doesburg

#19. Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

Edward Carpenter

#20. It was like hearing customs from an undiscoverd race: what men thought was unimaginable....She wondered if all human activity were like this, everything, every gesture, every comment colored faintly by gender. Each side continually astonished, confused by the other's misperceptions. p 133

Roxana Robinson

#21. I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

Rachele Brooke Smith

#22. Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

Ben Shahn

#23. Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

Todd Solondz

#24. Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Madeleine L'Engle

#25. Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

John C. Maxwell

#26. A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

Allan Sekula

#28. People in this country, always worrying about how to eat, they pay someone good money to tell them: Eat this, don't eat that. If you don't know how to eat, what else can you know how to do in this world?

Imbolo Mbue

#29. Deep love is like a deep ocean.

Lailah Gifty Akita