Art Quotes

Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

Art is man added to Nature.

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

Art is dedicated echo.

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

The love of the art is what keeps me going. It's that sound that runs through my bones.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I’m optimistic.

Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.

I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

Art is living stopped for a moment of wonder.

It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.