Art Quotes

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden ...

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it ...

Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to...

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religio...

It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders sho...

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by sca...

The painting has a life of its own

They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful r...

every good artist paints what he is

The surpluses will have to be expended somehow, and trust the oligarchs to find a way. Magnificent r...

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will ...

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustratin...

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrati...

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its...

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not a...

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the in...

In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell an...

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a re...

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a re...

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a re...

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a re...

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think ...

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Roy...

The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork ...

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question...

To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slo...

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the pr...

...[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that ...

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capab...

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that do...

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never...

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit togeth...

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no g...

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusua...

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was part...

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, h...

My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and...

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competi...

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackma...

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a sin...

The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it r...

Art is science made clear.

Paris, however―because of her purely fortuitous beauty, because of the old things which have become ...

People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without qu...

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I ta...

Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her ...

It is the duty of every generation of writers and artists to find fresh ways of expressing the habit...

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that...

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it i...

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the...

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out o...

...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate f...

Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no...

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own pa...

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual...

I'm guilty of being fascinated by gadgets and toys and technology, but any penny that I spend, I try...

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from colleg...

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentiet...

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contem...

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the o...

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy mac...

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - on...

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-...

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone...

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to she...

I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcon...

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was in...

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes...

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us s...

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger.

For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, bas...

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that...

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the t...

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life...

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single ...

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard...