Art Quotes - page 17
But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!
Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
L'art est un anti-destin.
There is
one art,
no more,
no less:
to do
all things
with art-
lessness.
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
I don't take art as seriously as politics.
God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.