Top 100 Piece Of Art Quotes
#1. I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
#2. Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and yet at the same time so real. You can open a drawer on set, and even though the camera never sees what's inside, it'll be filled with genuine 1940s documents.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#3. We don't sell a watch to give time. We sell a piece of art. We sell an object that represents something to you, you know. It's like you have a nice shirt or a nice jacket. It's like a luxury accessories that can be considered like shoes or like handbags for ladies.
Ricardo Guadalupe
#4. A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being
Jessie Burton
#5. Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
Louis Kahn
#6. At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.
Ellen Gallagher
#7. In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud.
Shawn Lukas
#8. No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.
Jean Fautrier
#9. Bit by bit, putting it together ...
Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art.
Every moment makes a contribution,
Every little detail plays a part.
Having just the vision's no solution,
Everything depends on execution,
Putting it together, that's what counts.
Stephen Sondheim
#10. Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.
Michael Arrington
#11. Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of not making a film to give your opinion but just as a piece of art, which to me means the Nouvelle Vague.
Arnaud Desplechin
#12. I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).
Yony Leyser
#13. Cars for me are like a piece of art.
Afrojack
#14. The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.
Klaus Nomi
#15. Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.
Drew Bledsoe
#16. I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
Arnaud Desplechin
#17. A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Ludwig Erhard
#18. I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#19. The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.
Thomm Quackenbush
#20. Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.
Philip Gerard
#21. Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
Pauline Kael
#22. My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.
Steve Miller
#23. A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that 'other' is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#24. I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
Madonna Ciccone
#25. The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.
Nikki Rowe
#26. Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Henry Rollins
#27. French psychiatrist Pierre Janet: "Every life is a piece of art, put together with all means available." As
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#28. An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
Bat For Lashes
#29. I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.
Marina Abramovic
#30. You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt ... or in front of a piece of graphic design.
Stefan Sagmeister
#31. Art is supposed to tell a story. It is supposed to be a piece of the soul that created it. Art is supposed to be alive, vibrant. It is supposed to speak directly to the spirit. To say things words alone could never say. Art is the essence of being.
Joseph R. Lallo
#32. If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.
Gabe Newell
#33. Just think of me as a canvas and you as the paint, and try and imagine that we are creating a masterpiece that's so beautiful, that no other piece of art could rival its beauty. - Clint
Angela Richardson
#34. A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker is one thing, but its interpretation by an audience is something else. I don't stop at what the filmmaker wanted to do.
Wesley Morris
#35. The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.
K. Martin Beckner
#36. You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
Seth Godin
#37. 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
#38. Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable.
Josh Smith
#39. A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman
#40. Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs.
Debasish Mridha
#41. I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.
Ellen DeGeneres
#42. Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.
David Byrne
#43. You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
Kit Williams
#44. Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.
Robert Stromberg
#45. How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Lou Reed
#46. I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.
Hank Green
#47. I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.
Jack Nicholson
#48. Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on ... Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than befor
James W. Sire
#49. The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.
Yoko Ono
#50. In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.
Damien Hirst
#51. I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.
Christopher Plummer
#53. Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia ... a true masterpiece!
Al Michaels
#54. A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.
Margaret Walker
#55. I knew a girl and she felt like art.
Sometimes colorful, sometimes dull,
Sometimes with bright, hopeful eyes,
Sometimes only black and white,
But she was always a piece of exquisite art.
Melanie Sargsian
#56. While the scale of our library is certainly attractive to our users, equally important is the quality of the content we provide and our state-of-the-art processing operation that vets every single piece of content that's submitted to ensure only the most suitable content is included.
Jon Oringer
#57. To make a movie, and we can call it a movie or we can call it a piece of art, to make a movie that has that much mass appeal what it is? What is it that makes kids in China want to see that movie [ 'Avatar'] and makes my dad want to see that movie.
Casey Neistat
#58. You don't pay to look at art. You pay to keep a piece of it.
J.M. Darhower
#59. An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
Eric Maisel
#60. There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.
Sara Sheridan
#61. I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.
Roberto Cavalli
#62. Frankly, with HBO and Showtime and cable shows, the DVD box sets and all, you can have a product that doesn't make you feel like as soon as it's projected, it's thrown away. It's really a piece of art.
Louis Leterrier
#63. I want that every piece of art be honest, never mind what it is about.
Ashraf Barhom
#64. A piece of art that speaks to you can open windows in a room you hadn't even known was dark.
Lilah Pace
#65. I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.
Brad Pitt
#66. The last void stone I'd worn was a beautiful black stone caught in vines of copper and silver. It looked like a necklace, a piece of art, really. This thing was spud-ugly.
Devon Monk
#67. I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
Berkeley Breathed
#68. You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.
Nicki Minaj
#69. Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.
Rosie O'Donnell
#70. I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.
Joe Murray
#71. Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.
Christopher Bollen
#72. Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story - or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall - is, Is it dead or alive?
Mavis Gallant
#73. For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
Chris Milk
#74. Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas.
She was a walking piece of art. Words and all.
Candace Knoebel
#75. I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets into this to participate. It's the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with me or my popularity. I'm fascinated.
Tobin Bell
#76. In medicine, as in art, the value of any piece of information is often related to its rarity.
Tim Benson
#77. And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.
Kim Gordon
#78. A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.
Amit Kalantri
#79. My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art.
Aimee Mullins
#80. Some photographers could vomit on a piece of paper and call it art, you know ... Hang it in the Guggenheim, or whatever. Sell a print for two hundred pounds? But I can't do that. I just
Maybe I have too much respect for walls ... or something.
Pansy Schneider-Horst
#81. You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.
Andrew Mason
#82. A piece of art, when completed, encapsulates its own reality. As its architect, the artist's task is to craft it well enough that the reader believes in its existence and is willing to enter, explore, and engage based on the artist's version of the truth, even if that truth is artifice.
Kate Kearns
#83. Writers should find out where joy resides and give it a voice. Every bright word or picture is a piece of pleasure set afloat. The reader catches it, and he goes on his way rejoicing. It's the business of art to send him that way as often as possible.
Nancy Horan
#84. Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.
Forest Whitaker
#85. I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.
Karl Pilkington
#86. Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
Patrick Demarchelier
#87. Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Eugenio Montale
#88. All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.
A.D. Posey
#89. A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not.
Max Kellerman
#90. To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#91. Your body is a piece of fucking art, but that doesn't mean you can use it to get what you want.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#92. Sculpture is an art of the open air ... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.
Henry Moore
#93. I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.
Erykah Badu
#94. The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent.
David Lloyd
#95. No book is ever perfect
No piece of art is ever perfect
No meal I cook is ever perfect
But at some point we have to eat ...
Tasha Turner
#96. God, O God, where art thou? Thou art as distant to me as the lady combing rice in the Yunnan Province of China or a piece of floating space debris circling Pegasi. In this feeling-dead world of post traumatic stress, skepticism is king, queen, and court jester.
Chila Woychik
#97. I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago ... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.
Andrea Thompson
#98. I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.
Aaron Lazar
#99. You may not be a work of art, but you are definitely a piece of work.
Amy Harmon
#100. Every good piece of art ... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
John Ruskin
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