Art quotes

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

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.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.