“The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.”
Quotes about art
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“When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.”
“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.”
“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.”
“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
“The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.”
“I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.”
“There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.”
“You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.”
“I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.”
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
“Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.”
“Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.”
“To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”
“Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”
“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
“An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.”
“I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.”
“Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.”
“The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?”
“Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.”
“In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.”