Art Quotes
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
To become a work of art is the object of living.
If something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous worship of facts, art will become sterile and beauty will pass away from the land.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
...art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.
Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not
He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.Come let us fart in the home.There is no art in a fart.Still a fart may not be artless.Let us fart and artless fart in the home.
