Art Quotes

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Art is eternal, but life is short.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

All art is theft.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.