Art Quotes

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Fashion is not art. Never.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Balance is the enemy of art.

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.