Art Quotes

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

Knowing how to dress is an art.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Cooking well, with love, is an art.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.