Art Quotes

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

The end of art is peace.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

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.

I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Education is the art of making man ethical.