Art Quotes

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

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

Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.