Art quotes

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

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.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.