In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
Theodore Bikel
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Ludwig Erhard
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
Jet Li
I choose films for their artistic value. I don’t need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won’t take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.
Brad Renfro
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
Robert Carlyle
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It’s delightful to distort size, to see something that’s tiny as though it were vast.
Robert Morgan
Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Joseph Conrad
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
Robert Morgan
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Miguel de Cervantes
Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.
Billy Idol
Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
James Wolcott
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm De Chazal
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning – after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
Jane Campion