Top 100 The Art Quotes
#1. The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it,
Max Reinhardt
#2. I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry
#4. If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.
Lynda Resnick
#5. Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
Harold Rosenberg
#6. Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.
Alexander Rodchenko
#7. We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
Donald Knuth
#8. Whether you love Bach or would rather listen to a composition produced by Kulitta Software, Bach has and will continue to demand the we approach and answer the question, 'what is the art, science and language of music?
Anastasia Lily
#9. The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.
China Chow
#10. The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
Jerry Saltz
#11. Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote, the words that come out of your mouth ... will also become the raw material for the art you make.
Teresita Fernandez
#12. Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.
Amit Ray
#13. My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.
Dan Harmon
#14. Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white.
Waite Phillips
#15. There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
Andrew Solomon
#16. The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.
Burt Reynolds
#17. The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#18. The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
Sydney J. Harris
#19. If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line.
[Paris Review, interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]
Max Frisch
#20. The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being.
Brianna Wiest
#21. The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
Tony Snow
#22. My desk was a present from Margaret Atwood.
After Zen and the Art of Uterus Maintenance
sold its first million, she said I needed a place
to write, other than the local bus-shelter.
Nuala Ni Chonchuir
#23. There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.
Rebecca Solnit
#24. I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.
Michael Connelly
#25. And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
Alice Duer Miller
#26. One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.
Ralph Steadman
#27. The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.
Roger Scruton
#28. Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
Jerry Saltz
#29. Friendship is a combination of art and craft. The craft part is in knowing how to give and how to take. The art part is in knowing when, and the whole process only works when no one is keeping track.
E.L. Konigsburg
#30. But the fact is, again and again in my lifetime, the vicious vituperations, the polemics, the dialectics, the sophistries of politics have become vapour and mist, while what remains is the literature and the art, which at the time might have been merely tolerated by the politicos.
Doris Lessing
#31. The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
Anne Frank
#32. Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.
Seth Godin
#33. What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.
Camille Henrot
#34. Data Jujitsu: the art of using multiple data elements in clever ways to solve iterative problems that, when combined, solve a data problem that might otherwise be intractable.
D.J. Patil
#35. The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were never truly alone.
Hal Zina Bennett
#36. Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.
Clement Greenberg
#37. For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking - Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#38. The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
Ouida
#39. The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.
Carlos Castaneda
#40. Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Vance Packard
#41. Emotional versatility is the art of making peace with the entire emotional spectrum by honing your capacity to channel various feelings along creative and constructive lines. It is not about controlling or condemning your feelings. It's about conducting your feelings in a self-edifying way.
T.K. Coleman
#42. website optimization, which is the art and science of enhancing the user experience of a website with the goal of converting users into customers. To see why this is important, you need to become
Richard Stokes
#43. In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
Fede Alvarez
#44. The challenge therefore, as you strive for success, is to make it a habit to live your life on purpose. You must learn to make deliberate plans and then practice the art and science of doing things on purpose.
Archibald Marwizi
#46. Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
Francis Cornford
#47. We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art
BeBe Zahara Benet
#48. The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Epicurus
#49. If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.
Archibald MacLeish
#51. I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.
Logan Lerman
#52. The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.
Norman Mailer
#53. The true masters of the art of living are already happy ...
Jean Anouilh
#54. The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.
Tristram Stuart
#55. The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
Chuck Palahniuk
#57. You really just love those opportunities and being a competitior in those situations [when running against the best]. I think that's when the art of hurdling and love of competition are at their purest.
Terrence Trammell
#58. Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
Robert Gallagher
#59. Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.
Vladimir Nabokov
#60. ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives ...
Hiroko Sakai
#61. It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
Elizabeth I
#62. Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.
Jerry Saltz
#63. I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.
Lester Bowie
#64. The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.
Julia Child
#65. Wherever You Are, Be There
One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.
Jim Rohn
#66. Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.
Philip Kotler
#67. I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.
Fred Tomaselli
#68. At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Martin Puryear
#69. But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
Camille Pissarro
#70. Just remember that even the purest of souls have darkness in them. It might be hard to spot. Perhaps they've perfected the art of covering it from the world. Or maybe it's hidden in a dark corner of their mind. But it's there. No one in this world is scar free.
Calia Read
#71. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
Sun Tzu
#72. The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.
Benjamin
#73. Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.
Martin Luther
#74. Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.
Phil Jackson
#75. Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.
Helen Cam
#76. I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
Penn Jillette
#77. To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.
Edward Steichen
#78. When I'm writing the text for a book like 'Little White Rabbit,' I read it aloud, alone, in my studio, again and again and again - because the rhythm has to be exactly right. After I get my manuscript to the point where I think it is perfect, I begin to think about what I want the art to look like.
Kevin Henkes
#79. Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.
Coco Chanel
#80. Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever name
suits you, rediscover the art of meandering.
Gina Greenlee
#81. Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
#82. I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.
Claes Oldenburg
#83. One of the reasons I love using LEGO bricks is because it makes the art very relatable and accessible; folks can connect with the art almost on a different level because they have played with it or their kids have played with it.
Nathan Sawaya
#84. We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.
Cassandra Clare
#85. Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
Wilhelm Stekel
#86. If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
Salman Rushdie
#87. Furlough took him on a tour of the castle to demonstrate the art of scurrying.
Kate DiCamillo
#88. Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording ... Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
Aldous Huxley
#89. The art of diplomacy is often to tell someone you want to be their best friend, but failing that, you might have to destroy them. It's kind of like Christianity. Congressman Lance Boyd.
Jayden Hunter
#90. Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.
Garry Kasparov
#91. [children]can thus learn the art of loving and know truly that when they think a thought they release a tremendous power or force in space.
Peter Tompkins
#92. If the art is concealed, it succeeds.
Ovid
#93. The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
William Hazlitt
#94. When I was council president I had a rule that people could sleep on the job. I modified the rule. You could actually sleep in public if you weren't sitting down. I had three people who actually perfected the art of sleeping while standing.
John F. Street
#95. There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk
Susan Pace-Koch
#96. I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We go places commercial cinema doesn't go, but sometimes it's to our own detriment.
Peter Mullan
#97. I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#98. The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#99. Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.
Edgar Alwin Payne
#100. I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.
Emmy Rossum
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