Art quotes

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3, 000 years.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Resolve and thou art free.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

What is art? Prostitution.