Rudolf Nureyev Quotes

Art is an investigation.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

When we separate music from life we get art.

Art is truth.

Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.