Art Quotes

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

Dominique Swain

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

Don Simpson

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

Douglas Sirk

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

Douglas Sirk

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

Douglas Sirk

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Daniel Tammet

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.

Denis Villeneuve

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

Donatella Versace

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

Damon Wayans, Jr.

There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat.

Daria Werbowy

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

Dave Winer

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

David Foster Wallace

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

David Foster Wallace

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

David Foster Wallace

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

David Foster Wallace

There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn't understand why, and nor could they.

David Warner

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Denis Waitley

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Diane Wakoski

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

Dick Wolf

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

Donnie Yen

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

Donnie Yen