Quotes of: Arts Keyword

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Charles Jencks

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Maya Lin

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Moshe Safdie

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Oscar Niemeyer

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

Aloe Blacc

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Alma Gluck

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

Al Jourgensen

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Al Jourgensen

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

Anselm Kiefer

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Agnes Martin

For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

Apolo Ohno

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

Alix Smith

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

Anton Seidl

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

Andy Warhol

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

Andy Warhol

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

August Wilson