Art Quotes

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self.

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.