Art Quotes

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Art is I; science is we.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.

Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It's something you can hold, pore over the lyrics, and immerse yourself in the art work.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

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

Land really is the best art.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.