Art Quotes

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

~ Adolf Loos

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

~ Frances Mayes

I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.

~ Jonathan Hickman

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

~ Marco Brambilla

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

~ James Henry Breasted

About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.

~ Max Walker

I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.

~ Hannah Ware

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

~ George Hickenlooper

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

~ John Howe

Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

~ Anne Fortier

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

~ Martin Puryear

I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

~ Nico Tortorella

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

~ Friedensreich Hundertwasser

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

~ James Polshek

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

~ James Polshek

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

~ Jude Deveraux

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

~ Malcolm Forbes

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

~ Lionel Trilling

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

~ Thomas Hood

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

~ George Edward Moore

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

~ Mickey Hart

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

~ Jimmy Page

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

~ Sonu Nigam

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

~ Miuccia Prada

I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.

~ Daniel Bruhl

People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's craft, which, when I was starting out, was the most important thing: that you are as fully equipped for your job or your art as possible.

~ Joshua Sasse

In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

~ Carl Honoré

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

~ Robert Mondavi

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

~ W. H. Auden

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

~ Grant Achatz

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

~ Michael Palin

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

~ St. Vincent

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

~ Kristin Scott Thomas

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

~ Julia Child

Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything.

~ Shreya Ghoshal

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

~ Gustav Klimt

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

~ Martin Luther King

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne