Famous Quotes About art

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.