Art Quotes

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Art transcends cultural boundaries.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Art is what you can get away with.