Quotes about Art, page 7

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about art

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about art

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

Quote by Billy Idol about art

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu about art

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Quote by Billy Joel about art

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Quote by Billy Joel about art

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about art

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about art

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about art

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about art

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Quote by James Joyce about art

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Quote by Grace Jones about art

If the instructor teaches art, the principal will be an ex-coach and will dislike art. If the instructor is a coach, the principal will be an ex-coach who took a winning team to the state.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about art

Bullets work on veteran cops too. They also work on weight lifters, martial arts experts, department marksmen, Narco Investigators, S.W.A.T. jocks, and others who consider themselves immortal.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about art

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about art

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

Quote by George Oppen about art

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

Quote by Robert Owen about art

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Quote by Camille Paglia about art

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

Quote by Camille Paglia about art

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

Quote by Brian De Palma about art