Forms Of Art Quotes

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

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

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

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

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist. — David Blaine

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

He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it. — Dodie Smith

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

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

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician. — Ken Hill

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

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms. — Frank Herbert

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate. — Jess Row

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms. — Frank Griswold

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. — Gerard Way

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. — John Grierson

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

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

I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher. — Debasish Mridha

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. — Elliot W. Eisner

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

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

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. — Roman Payne

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms. — Mika.

The consolation of art comes in many forms ... For some it is making, for others it is having. — Michael Kimmelman

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms. — Keith Jarrett

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. — Marcus Aurelius

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. — Marcel Proust

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

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. — Twyla Tharp

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

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art. — Richard King

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

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

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. — Sufjan Stevens

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. — Meyer Schapiro

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. — Ray Kurzweil

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth. — Mark Nepo

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. — Ralph Ellison

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

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

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death. — Irving Stone

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. — Theodor W. Adorno

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. — Tom Clancy

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

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

To demand the art forms of yesterday in either word systems or art is a bourgeois failure. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Art takes different forms ... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history. — George Clooney

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. — James Gray

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

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. — Jean-Luc Godard