Art Quotes

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.