Art Quotes

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

I use this notepad onstage, mastering the art of not being professional. I'll do a joke that doesn't work on purpose, then go to my notepad and scratch it off, which becomes funny.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Cyberbullying isn't real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They've got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.

Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.

I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

One of the most important things in the digital world is being able to story-tell and help people envision the art of the possible with respect to different technologies.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

I like churches and Catholic symbolism, and although the art at the Vatican is overwhelming to see, I appreciated it even as an atheist.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.

My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.