Arts Quotes

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Arts is I, science is we.

If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have nerve enough to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

You don't prune a tree by cutting at its roots.

This place, you tell them you're interested in the arts, you get messages of sympathy.

Brevity is the sister of talent.

Politics is the art of deciding who gets left out.

"If you do not wish to reach up and smear it with your finger, than it is not art"

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."