Top 100 Quotes About An Art

#1. It's not just self defense, it's about ... self control, body discipline, and mind discipline ... and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

Elvis Presley

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#2. No one presumes to teach an art that he has not first mastered through study. How foolish therefore for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts.

St. Gregory Dialogos

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#3. We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

Benjamin Disraeli

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#4. I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

Francesca DiMattio

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#5. Despite its scientific
pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

Robert Kuttner

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#6. Yoga is an art and science of living.

Indra Devi

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#7. There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.

Douglas Adams

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#8. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sakes. Now, I mean, I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend
a lousy poem.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#9. Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions.

Roy Jones Jr.

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#10. I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if you draw badly. Now they teach it at the Royal College of Art and get grand about it. It's the only course there that I don't understand.

Antony Armstrong-Jones

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#11. Consistent happiness is an art - An art that involves taking and maintaining control of which thoughts you give attention to and which thoughts you disregard

Gennaro Moccia

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#12. Boxing is really an art form. It might just look like two people beating each other up, but when you look closer, it's actually quite beautiful and interesting.

Seth Numrich

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#13. The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

Ezra Pound

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#14. There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Brian Ferneyhough

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#15. Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation.

Todd Newton

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#16. I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

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#17. Changing clothes in a public restroom is an acquired skill, one that becomes an art when the bathroom floor hasn't been washed in a decade or more.

Seanan McGuire

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#18. Love is an art and this love lacks artists.

Javaria Waseem

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#19. The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.

Wynton Marsalis

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#20. Your birthday gift to me is to place me in the middle of an art heist so that I can taser someone?" He nodded, smiling, looking very proud. "Thank you, Alex. I mean it. I ... I just love you so much.

Penny Reid

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#21. People take for granted what is in fact an art. To live well, to live comfortably by one's own standards takes a certain maturity of spirit, exceptional character, truly refined taste, and - ' 'And money.

Kathleen Tessaro

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#22. Writing is not a competition, or a fear. Writing is an art, a passion, a love.

Kirsty-Anne Still

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#23. My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my dad taught himself how to frame pictures, and then he was a curator at an art gallery in the city I'm from. I'm an only child.

Ari Millen

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#24. Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Douglas Wilson

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#25. The ballet world I don't think is an art form that is quick to change or to adjust or evolve.

Misty Copeland

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#26. I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

P.J. Harvey

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#27. To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was ...

Pablo Picasso

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#28. Getting dressed for a woman is an art form, surreal, vaguely abstract, figurative and byzantine. When you undress a woman you enter her subconscious kingdom, her scents, her secrets and her fantasy.

Chloe Thurlow

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#29. A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.

Kathleen Hanna

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#30. The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

Don DeLillo

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#31. Art directors speak in pictures. If you want an art director to understand what you're saying, you need to draw some lines and circles on a piece of paper.

Nevada Scheffler

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#32. Writing is an art and a skill that can be developed

Bernard Kelvin Clive

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#33. The Pop art I wound up doing came to me purely from 'Mad' comics. I loved the idea of doing fun stuff. I met an art dealer who wanted to show the work - that was in January 1962 - and that was the beginning for me.

Peter Saul

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#34. Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.

Yuvaraja Dhayanithi

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#35. Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic ...

Judith Crist

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#36. But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process

Isocrates

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#37. I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

Tony Jaa

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#38. Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

Gerard Way

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#39. 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

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#40. Dying is also an art and just like any other art it must be learned.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

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#41. Whenever an art form - music, book, drama, song - is dragged into the seminar rooms, it is finished as a force. Nothing is more deadly than the anatomizing of scholarship, since the study of art, any art - even the obscene, semiliterate yawp and grunt of rap - drains the life from it.

Paul Theroux

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#42. The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

Bruce Beresford

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#43. I approach my music-making as an art-form
something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

Brian Wilson

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#44. To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

Deborah Eisenberg

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#45. Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.

Norman Vincent Peale

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#46. I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Oscar Wilde

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#47. Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.

Maimonides

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#48. A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence ... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.

Robert Motherwell

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#49. And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

Brian Michael Bendis

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#50. In Caverna lies were an art and everybody was an artist, even young children.

Frances Hardinge

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#51. The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

L. E. J. Brouwer

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#52. The elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type.

Elena Ferrante

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#53. Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

J. G. Stedman

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#54. I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

Rebecca Hall

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#55. Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

Elizabeth George

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#56. Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way (1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.

Blaise Pascal

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#57. Boxing's an art, it's a science, and you don't go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out, they happen to run into one of these bricks by mistake [looks at his fists], that's their fault.

Roy Jones Jr.

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#58. I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

Nigel Lythgoe

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#59. I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

Yoko Ono

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#60. Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.

Pearl Zhu

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#61. Seduction is an art that is tested in the mirror

Miguel El Portugues

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#62. What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.

Raoul Hausmann

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#63. Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#64. The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up at that part of the business. I'm an art dealer - my primary responsibility is to represent the artist.

Larry Gagosian

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#65. The study of magic is not a science, it is not an art, and it is not a religion. Magic is a craft. When we do magic, we do not wish and we do not pray. We rely upon our will and our knowledge and our skill to make a specific change to the world.

Lev Grossman

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#66. I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.

Black Francis

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#67. I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix ... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.

Burton Silverman

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#68. There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

Lawrence Watt-Evans

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#69. We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#70. There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat.

Daria Werbowy

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#71. The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

Charles Tart

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#72. I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios.

Peter Falk

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#73. Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

Janelle Monae

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#74. When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

James Frey

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#75. There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

Sarah Addison Allen

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#76. Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.

Debasish Mridha

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#77. Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#78. Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#79. Book marketing should be a planned process, an art if you will.

Heather Hart

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#80. I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.

Grant Morrison

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#81. Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents

Isaac Bonewits

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#82. Chase was gone then, and Donnie was back, alone in his room, wondering about those pictures from an art book he'd so admired. Because it felt like he'd just lived one, and it had been beautiful, so beautiful, and he'd been able to reach out and touch the lines of it, but it still hurt.

Amy Lane

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#83. Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

Sydney Pollack

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#84. I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art exhibit.

Lisa Randall

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#85. For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?

Will Durant

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#86. I always very much enjoyed arts and it was so central in my family, my mother was also an art teacher, as well as founding the Henson Company with my dad, there was a lot of art going on in our household.

Brian Henson

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#87. The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

Ann Macbeth

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#88. Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry.

Nick Hornby

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#89. Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads ... it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.

Karen Maezen Miller

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#90. The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

Annie Dillard

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#91. My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

Steve Prefontaine

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#92. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Charles Baudelaire

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#93. What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

Jeffrey Deitch

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#94. Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still!

Alice B. Toklas

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#95. If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

Julian Baggini

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#96. I love voice over work. To me, voice over and animation is such an art, because you focus solely on your voice. You do not focus on how to speak, combined with facial expressions, movement, etc. You as the actor need to convey all those things with only your voice.

Atticus Shaffer

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#97. Cricket is an art. Like all arts it has a technical foundation. To enjoy it does not require technical knowledge, but analysis that is not technically based is mere impressionism.

C.L.R. James

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#98. The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.

Timothy Mo

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#99. As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.

Richard Whately

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#100. What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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