There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
— Oswald Mosley
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
— Oscar Wilde
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Surprise is key in all art.
— Oscar Niemeyer
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
— Orson Welles
I just love food and the art of it. There's such an art to being a good chef and the way you present food and the different ingredients you use. It's like music - you get inspiration from different genres. It's the same with art, too.
— Orianthi
If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
— Orhan Pamuk
Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society and advances the state of the art, hopefully in an outsized way?
— Oren Etzioni
Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.
— Omari Hardwick
Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements.
— Om Malik
I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.
— Olivier Theyskens
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
— Olivia Newton-John
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
— Ossie Davis
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.
— Orlando Jones
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
— Oriana Fallaci
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist.
— Oneohtrix Point Never
Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.
— Omar Epps
If you're making something tangible, whether it's clothing, a song, a piece of art... when you create something that's outside of yourself you take a bit of the pain and it's released, you let it out a little bit. That's my Oprah Winfrey moment.
— Olly Alexander
My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
— Olivia Williams
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
— Oliver Herford
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
All art is quite useless.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
— Orlando Bloom
I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.
— Ori Gersht
An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or, where human creativity still shines, in science.
I need my 'art work' or 'entertainment work' or whatever to have empathy for or connection to the way I experience the world as a person.
It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
— Om Puri
Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.
Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
— Olivia Wilde
