Quotes of: Visual-arts Keyword

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

Tod Machover

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.

Tim Blake Nelson

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

Ty Pennington

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

Tahar Rahim

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Thomas Shadwell

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

Tino Sehgal

The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.

Art & the Bible

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

Aspects of the Novel

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

Urs Fischer

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

Vincent Cassel

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

Vanessa Paradis

The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.

Virginia Postrel

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Virginia Woolf

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

Vivienne Westwood

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

William C. Bryant

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

William Christopher Handy

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

William Ernest Henley

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

William Hazlitt

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

William Hazlitt

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Wallace Stevens