Art Quotes

Where thou art, that is home.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Surprise is key in all art.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

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.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.