Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Art is anything people do with distinction. "

Related Quotes:

" Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. "

" I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. "

" Art is the objectification of feeling. "

Herman Melville

Objectification

" Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. "

" Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. "

" Art is too serious to be taken seriously. "

" I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition. "

" The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. "

" Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. "

" I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music. "

Amandla Stenberg

" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "

" Trying to force creativity is never good. "

Sarah McLachlan

" All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker. "

" Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. "

" Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. "

" Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. "

" In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. "

Willem de Kooning

" Photographing a cake can be art. "

" No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. "

" What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. "

" Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. "

" To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. "

Henri Cartier-Bresson

" As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do. "

" The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. "

" Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. "

" Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. "

" Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. "

Robert Delaunay

" There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete. "

Stanley A. McChrystal