Art Quotes

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an e...

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must...

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of repre...

All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in realit...

My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the vi...

There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits...

To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the vis...

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He ...

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty...

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture a...

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. So...

An idea is salvation by imagination

If it sells, it's art.

Space is the breath of art.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civili...

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied ...

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what...

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or i...

What you see is what you see

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and a...

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are b...

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an...

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-d...

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at thin...

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of de...

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological...

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Chris...

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Art is the proper task of life.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it w...

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art an...

The satyr, as the Dionysiac chorist, dwells in a reality sanctioned by myth and ritual. That tragedy...

It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the...

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: c...

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanen...

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent t...

Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around...

Light is impressionism.

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with...

Education is the art of making man ethical.

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a lib...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Henc...

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing not...

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living...

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exp...

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain ...

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illu...

A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my ...

Caricature is rough truth.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Art is a delayed echo.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

Art upsets science reassures.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite...

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had n...

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, s...

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we p...

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every or...

We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still...