Art Quotes

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Thomas Mann

Life, Show, High

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
Franz Marc

Life, Truth, True

The art of communication is the language of leadership.
James Humes

Leadership, Language

I love to collect modern art.
Maria Sharapova

Love, Modern, Collect

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
Vidal Sassoon

Change, Done, Before

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.
Brad Renfro

Money, Leave, Earth

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.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Far, Though

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.
Joseph Conrad

Life, Men, Truth

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.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Idea, Year

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

Work, Line, However

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Rock, Talk, Ordinary

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

Tell, Company, Thou

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

Design, Lost, May

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm De Chazal

Nature, God, Down

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.
Jane Campion

School, End, Everything

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.
Sylvester Stallone

Great, Mood, Changed

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.
Jane Campion

Family, Car, School

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.
Louise Brooks

Great, Thought, Soul

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Ben Okri

Nothing, Magic, Hide

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus

Science, Light, Analysis

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

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.
Theodore Bikel

History, Lost, Down

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

Everyone, Compromise, Cake

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

Move, Physical, Attack

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