Art Quotes

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right w...

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same sh...

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is tr...

The creative act is not pure.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hyp...

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than b...

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the ...

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the wors...

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhoo...

Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image o...

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, be...

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form...

Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. Yo...

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in...

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist...

If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the n...

Where does contagion end and art begin?

The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. ...

And when things get tough, this is what you should do.Make good art.

Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about...

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of t...

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chim...

In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the ...

... and I submit to you, that science, scientific discovery, especially cosmic discovery, does not b...

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in...

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in ...

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into...

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a reco...

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It...

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real ...

This was no longer art: it even destroyed the harmony of the portrait itself. They were alive, they ...

His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the ...

Watch out, brother,' his professor had told him more than once, 'you have talent; it would be a sin ...

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole h...

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about...

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small ...

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the...

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator...

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words wh...

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of p...

Toutes les erreurs de la critique commises à mon égard, à mes débuts, furent qu'elle ne vit pas qu'i...

If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people ...

Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts t...

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece wi...

We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, ...

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and make...

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create...

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, ...

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding...

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety a...

The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it...

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.Vice and virtue are the artist’s materi...

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympa...

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of...

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That...

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of ...

Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. A...

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any exte...

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being...

God and other artists are always a little obscure.....

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beau...

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to ...

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art ...

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They de...

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what th...

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they d...

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reductio...

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things...

To become a work of art is the object of living.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But t...

For what is truth? In matters of relogion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of...

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t...

If something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous worship of facts, art wil...

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Natur...

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.