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There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through
— Dan Rice
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
— Felix Dennis
There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms. (p. 12)
— James Gurney
Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.
— Jim James
Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps
— Itay Talgam
There are art forms we don't know about yet that will be enabled by technology we haven't invented yet.
— Michael Pryor
Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature's ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself.
— Umberto Eco
One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.
— Bruce Sterling
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.
— Eric Hoffer
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.
— William Wordsworth
I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
— David Bowie
The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.
— John Kurtz
Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.
— Sara Maitland
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.
— Raymond Chandler
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.
— Henri Matisse
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
— Charlie Haden
Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.
— Shakti Gawain
We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago.
— Steven Dietz
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
Love is a more wonderful thing than art.'
'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry. — Oscar Wilde
'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry. — Oscar Wilde
He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.
— Dodie Smith
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
— Vladimir Kramnik
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
— Andre Malraux
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
— Brian K. Vaughan
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
— Elliot W. Eisner
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
— Peter Zumthor
Love is strange. It comes in different forms. All of them are from the same root, and that's how your love grows - from that root.
— Art Hochberg
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
— Marshall McLuhan
There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
— Vanessa Paradis
Looking beyond the silhouette and reading between the lines are the same thing; just different art forms.
— Nanette L. Avery
The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
— Oscar Wilde
First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
— Spike Lee
The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.
— Jess Row
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
— Elliot W. Eisner
I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.
— Debasish Mridha
Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.
— Luciano Pavarotti
In art and mythology, the Goddess appears in three forms. White represents the virgin, red the mother, and black, the crone, or the death-goddess.
— Erin O'Riordan
Fear comes in many different forms. It is especially lethal when it comes in a spiritual form.
— Art Hochberg
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
— Roman Payne
Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.
— Doug Aitken
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
— Sufjan Stevens
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
— Xander Berkeley
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
— Roy Lichtenstein
Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.
— Keith Jarrett
The consolation of art comes in many forms ... For some it is making, for others it is having.
— Michael Kimmelman
I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.
— Mika.
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
— Karen Armstrong
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The only two useful art forms are religion and stories.
— Stephen King
Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Some people say that poetry is a dying art but how can something that is dying breathe life into other art forms and make it new and vibrant.
— Sandra Proto
Art needs motives that are more profound than profit if it is to maintain its difference from - and position above - other cultural forms.
— Sarah Thornton
To demand the art forms of yesterday in either word systems or art is a bourgeois failure.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
— Twyla Tharp
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
— Alyson Noel
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
— Clive Bell
One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.
— Joyce DiDonato
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art ... curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.
— Carl Van Vechten
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
— Tom Clancy
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
— Theodor W. Adorno
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
— Albrecht Durer
The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
— Octave Feuillet
Art takes different forms ... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.
— George Clooney
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
— Marcel Proust
The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.
— Mark Nepo
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
— Ray Kurzweil
Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.
— Meyer Schapiro
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
— Andrea Bocelli
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
— Jean-Luc Godard
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
— John Grierson
Fragments are the only forms I trust.
— Donald Barthelme
We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.
— F. Sionil Jose
Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.
— Julia Child
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
— Ralph Ellison
The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.
— Frank Griswold
My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.
— Charlotte Lamb
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material ... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
— Ben Shahn
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
— Pablo Picasso
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
— James Gray
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
— F. Sionil Jose
I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov