Quotes about Art

“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”

“Art is made to disturb, science reassures.”

“Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.”

“No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.”

“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.”

“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”

“There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.”

“All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.”

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

“The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.”

“Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.”

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.”

“Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.”

“Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.”

“I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.”

“Surprise is key in all art.”

“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”