Art quotes

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues, ' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.