Quotes of: Visual-arts Keyword

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

Clive Bell

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Constantin Brancusi

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Camillo di Cavour

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

Catherine Deneuve

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

Charlie Haden

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Chuck Jones

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

Christian Lacroix

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

Corin Nemec

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

Camille Pissarro

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

Chantal Sutherland

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Christian Slater

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Chris Ware

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

Daniel Alarcon

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

David Bailey

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Douglas Coupland

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

David Duchovny

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

David Elliott

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Dario Fo

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

Donald Fagen

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

Danny Huston