Art Quotes

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.