Art Quotes

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverb...

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is les...

Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and ...

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, shoul...

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

As far as he could see, the drawings were simply alive. They might be colored earth on rock, but the...

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop ...

His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostr...

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Ital...

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It ...

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicia...

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the k...

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winge...

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired...

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial inte...

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, the...

I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the origi...

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own ...

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great ...

He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to ta...

Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied...

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking arti...

What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-co...

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice whe...

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man...

His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluo...

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. The mind that responds to the ...

Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never trans...

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of executi...

Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need...

Some centuries ago they had Raphael and Michael Angelo; now we have Mr. Paul Delaroche, and all beca...

What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing ...

This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantasti...

For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an explo...

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I do...

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. ...

No. No, it was a lonely writer I met one stormy day in Laguna Beach. He had a poem about Thelonious ...

The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the arti...

Boomer had asked her once, in a telephone call from Virginia, “Why does this stuff, these hand-paint...

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but...

Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a...

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful work...

Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history...

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know a...

After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move i...

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values again...

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, ...

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those ...

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify--capriciously--their urge for immortality. The te...

Schelling's God is the totality of Nature struggling towards consciousness, and Man is as far as the...

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We spea...

I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enorm...

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to clo...

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it...

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to thi...

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contra...

All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are...

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must ...

I want to remind us all that art is dangerous. I want to remind you of the history of artists who ha...

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the conse...

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole.

Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this ...

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in princ...

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its princip...

Take a newspaper.Take some scissors.Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make...

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn...

If we really are saying rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If yo...

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied ...

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike...

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architect...

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rule...

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty part...

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but of...

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work —...

Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims ...

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human powe...

Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the ...

And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this--lettin...

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can...

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering hap...

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering hap...

But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a real...

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched h...

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue ...

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one...

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an a...