Art quotes

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.