Art Quotes

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

I am playing the music I love and I really play it from my heart, and whatever the out form is - it doesn't matter whether it's art or music.

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

My art has gained some high value.

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]