Art Quotes

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out...

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if y...

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectiv...

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no sh...

When you painted on earth – at least in your earlier days – it was because you caught glimpses of he...

To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look...

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is ...

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t...

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way....

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mat...

The only road to freedom is self-education in art. Art is not a luxury for any advancedcivilization;...

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all ove...

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

I know of no significant advance in science that did not require major inputs from both cerebral hem...

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to ke...

There is truth in stories. There is truth in one of your paintings, boy, or in a sunset or a couplet...

As the sun dipped beneath the horizon, the clouds overhead blushed cotton-candy pink. Their reflecti...

The ride to Alicante had been like something out of a dream, or a cheesy romance novel. The two of t...

Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in re...

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has...

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it i...

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special...

An artist is a person first.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. ...

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happ...

How can we expect to know everything about God?"He looked at me, his eyes narrowing."I call that amb...

The beautiful is always bizarre.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and ye...

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded...

The Beautiful is always strange.

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising,...

Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, i...

L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thin...

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths ...

unless it comes out ofyour soul like a rocket,unless being still woulddrive you to madness orsuicide...

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you,do...

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet an...

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense o...

Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute...

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come ou...

Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, ne...

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is tha...

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the Am...

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into ...

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot ...

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, b...

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things...

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

But you possess one quality that no one else does. Oh? Your identity. Your history, deeds and situat...

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to...

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw th...

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the f...

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look...

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Art never comes from happiness.

Art never comes from happiness

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's ...

Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Art is I science is we.

Art is I science is we.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday even...

I must have flowers, always and always.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us ...

In my ArtI have butone fear:that we willfail to befearless.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves ...

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my ow...

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps tho...

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience whe...

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other...

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, fla...

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

I see football as an art and all players are artists.If you are a top artist, the last thing you wou...

Horror is the law of the world of living creatures, and civilization is concerned with masking that ...

Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tel...

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea...

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...