Art Quotes

Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy wings and fly."

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.

Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

God is a geometrician.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.

I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

All great ideas are dangerous.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.