Art Quotes

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

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

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.

You too are a work of art.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement.

I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Art is all in the details.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

Art is apotheosis; Often, the complaint of beauty.

The earth without art is just eh.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.