Art Quotes

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Every good painter paints what he is.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Space is the breath of art.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

A picture is a poem without words.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Patience is the art of hoping.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Nature is the art of God.

Where thou art, that is home.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

History develops, art stands still.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

One eye sees, the other feels.

The best artists know what to leave out.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Art is I; science is we.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.