Art Quotes

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Sridevi is the most beautiful and the most sensuous woman God ever created, and I think He creates such exquisite pieces of art like her only once in a thousand years.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels.