Art quotes

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

I'm not interested in pop art.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.