Art Quotes

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

Simon McBurney

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

Simon McBurney

Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the pu...

Simon McBurney

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to ma...

Simon McBurney

Boxing is really an art form. It might just look like two people beating each other up, but when you look closer, it's actually quite beautiful and interesting.

Seth Numrich

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

Sonu Nigam

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

Sean O'Casey

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.

Shaquille O'Neal

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

Sarah Jessica Parker

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

Sean Penn

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

Sigmar Polke

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Sigmar Polke

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

Sigmar Polke

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Sonny Perdue

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.

Stephan Pastis

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

Steven Pinker

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Steven Pinker

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Steve Prefontaine

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

Steve Prefontaine

It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.

Susanna Phillips

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Sydney Pollack