Quotes of: Arts Keyword

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Peter Wright

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

Richard Attenborough

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Robert Carlyle

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

Robert Graham

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

Ricky Jay

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Richard King

The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.

Rob Lowe

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Rene Magritte

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Robert Motherwell

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Robert Motherwell

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Robert Redford

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Robert Schumann

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

Rod Stewart

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

Reggie Watts

There's a reason for Art Garfunkel's oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain.

Shawn Amos

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

Steve Earle

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

Stan Getz

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

Stephen Gardiner

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

Salma Hayek

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Seamus Heaney