We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.
— Winston Marshall
It is certainly a most tremendous and unprecedented honor and distinction that I have received from Pittsburgh. Let us hope that it is not too late in my case to be of value to American art in something that I may yet possibly do from this encouragement.
— Winslow Homer
Art is science made clear.
— Wilson Mizner
I feel really fortunate and grateful that not only do I get to do what I love, but I get to do it and serve a conversation that I feel is necessary culturally. The fact that I get to bring those two passions together is amazing to me - that I get to use my art in order to inform my activism and vice versa!
— Wilson Cruz
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
— Willie Nelson
I don't enjoy art.
— Willie Cauley-Stein
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
— William Shatner
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
— William S. Burroughs
People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's afraid to say, 'Keanu Reeves was bad in that movie.' We see so many films that we can tell who's faking it. But with art, we can't always tell.
— William Quigley
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
— William Osler
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
— William Morris
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.
— William Morris Hunt
The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.
— William McDonough
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
— William Landay
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
— William Inge
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
— William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
— Winston Churchill
Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil picture now owned by the Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, called 'Hark! the Lark.'
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.
— Willow Shields
I have a lot of art in the house, but it's mine, friends'. Not necessarily - like, I didn't spend thousands of dollars to attain it. It's authentic, at least.
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
— William Wordsworth
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
— William Shakespeare
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.
Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.
— William John Wills
I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.
— William Hurt
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by any art student, defrauding me out of a possible picture.
The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
— Win Butler
I consider myself an 'actorvist.' When I say that, what I mean is that I use my art to inform my activism and to be my activism sometimes, but I also use my activism in my art.
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
You hoop with a certain expression. That's your art. You've crafted it, so it is your art.
There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but wonder - 'What are the people I know going to think about this?' So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space.
— William T. Vollmann
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
— William Samuel Johnson
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.
We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.
If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving off' at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn.
— William Lloyd Garrison
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
— William James
For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
