Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: art

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

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.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

In art the best is good enough.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.