Art Quotes

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...

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pa...

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational haza...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections ma...

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world....

She has given me a way out.

Most humans, it seems, still put up fences around their acts and thoughts – even when these are pile...

...it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for peopl...

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were t...

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into se...

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same h...

To erase the possibility of empathy is to erase the possibility of understanding.To erase the possib...

Life is a living flute, yoga is the art of creating melody and rhythm in it.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c...

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the ...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much s...

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves i...

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, ...

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learn...

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recall...

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pourin...

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i...

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learn...

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in it...

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out toward...

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys aw...

Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to ge...

There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshnes...

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec l...

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

I am the soul in limbo.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

The scholar seeks the artist finds.

I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on thing...

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in s...

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art a...

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The b...

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whethe...

Art is what you can get away with.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reaso...

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finis...

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Art is what you get away with

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer tr...

Land really is the best art.

If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize t...

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that ...

and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves ha...

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair tha...

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separat...

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just i...

Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or...

On the Rules of PerspectiveA bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Bra...

In paintings, music, poetry, architecture, we feel the elusive energy that moves through us and the ...

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the r...

I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try a...

... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell ...

I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk...

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing onesel...

If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," I...

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class Fra...

There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a...

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond sc...

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is b...

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the de...