Quotes of: Abstract-art Keyword

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Amanda Palmer

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Ann Patchett

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

Andrea Riseborough

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.

Andre Rieu

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.

Artur Schnabel

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

Alexander Theroux

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Anthony Trollope

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Alfred de Vigny

I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.

Billy Baldwin

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

Billy Higgins

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

Brad Holland

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

Benjamin Jowett

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Bil Keane

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

Barry McGee

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

Bill Viola

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

Barry White

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

Ben Whishaw

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Carl Andre

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe