Quotes and Sayings About Art
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We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
-- Ahmed Best -
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
-- Ai Weiwei -
If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
-- Ai Weiwei -
I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
-- Ai Weiwei -
I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
-- Ai Weiwei -
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.
-- Ai Weiwei -
I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
-- Ai Weiwei -
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
-- Ai Weiwei -
Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
-- Ai Weiwei -
In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss
-- Ai Yazawa -
If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
T hanks for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather. H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday. A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart. N for neighbors, and November, nice things, new things to remember. K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon. S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that about. That spells THANKS for joy in living and a jolly good Thanksgiving.
-- Aileen Fisher -
I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.
-- Aisha Tyler -
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
-- Akhenaton -
Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.
-- Akhenaton -
The art of life is loving and listening to one another.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way, it's possibly to bring out one's individuality. If this idea appeals to you, I call on you to try drawing your own manga.
-- Akira Toriyama -
My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.
-- Akshay Kumar -
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
-- Al Alvarez -
The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
-- Al Alvarez -
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
-- Al Alvarez -
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
-- Al Alvarez -
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp -
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.
-- Al Franken
