“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”
Quotes about art
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“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
“Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.”
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.”
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
“We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.”
“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.”
“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”
“To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.”
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
“I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.”
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”
“One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.”
“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”
“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.”
“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”
“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.”