“I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.”
Quotes about art
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“I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.”
“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.”
“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.”
“Nature is the art of God.”
“I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.”
“Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.”
“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.”
“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.”
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
“The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.”
“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”
“I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.”
“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
“I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.”
“Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.”
“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.”
“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.”
“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.”
“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”
“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
“The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.”
“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.”