Art Quotes

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.

If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them into design.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

I think hope is key, in life and in art.

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.