Art Quotes

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Art is activism.

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.

Make good art.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.