Art Quotes

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a fe...

He had liked to listen to the exotic (to a Belsey) chatter of business and money and practical polit...

At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sen...

USURY: Everybody's looking for the job in which you never have to pay anyone their pound of flesh. S...

You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevit...

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–-...

The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exha...

If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live ou...

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

... Have you ever reflected that posterity may not be the faultless dispenser of justice that we dre...

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out ...

Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was ...

A metamorphosis... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. ...

Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not...

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a cultu...

The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a l...

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and...

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it ...

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the c...

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included ...

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

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private ...

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, lo...

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates h...

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As l...

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the coun...

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a...

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.

For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his f...

I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that y...

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around po...

I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject....

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the ...

Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the per...

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief ...

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ou...

A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortu...

What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggl...

The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer.

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives...

My thoughts about pornography tend to revolve around the fact that while very few of us are zombies,...

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pocket...

His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, ...

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its ...

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws...

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or t...

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

Let us seek the respite where it is—in the very thick of battle. For in my opinion, and this is wher...

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and...

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the...

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flow...

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. T...

[…] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not...

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as ...

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be ...

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and s...

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its ...

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and a...

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which sta...

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stan...

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to ...

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through suc...

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to ...

On the levels of politics and theology, beauty is perfectly compatible with nonsense and tyranny. Wh...

As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combi...

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most o...

Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Myst...

Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man dev...

Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is mor...

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not com...

I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young p...

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literatur...

Certainly a painting can be reductionistically described by its physical properties only: its shape,...

My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She al...

Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly w...

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand al...

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have...

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in see...

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poe...