Quotes of: Arts Keyword

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Charles de Lint

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

Cheech Marin

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Claire Messud

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Camille Paglia

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?

Chris Pine

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Cynthia Rowley

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.

Charles Saatchi

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

Clara Schumann

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

Connie Sellecca

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

Chris Ware

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

Dan Colen

My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

Damien Chazelle

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

Dan Flavin

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Donald Judd

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

D. H. Lawrence

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

Diane Lane

The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.

David Mitchell

We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.

Diane Paulus