Quotes of: Fine-arts Keyword

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.

Karen DeCrow

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Ken Hill

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

Moby

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

Mary Schmich

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

Edward Hirsch

The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.

Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do, and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do.

Jet Li

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

The Rothko Chapel: Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

Arne Glimcher

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Angelus Silesius

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Arsene Wenger

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

David Elliott

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

Gloria Trevi

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Hans Haacke

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

Jeffrey Deitch

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Joanna Russ

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Muhammad Iqbal

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Saint Augustine

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

Samuel West

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

The Art Spirit

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

Thom Yorke