Art Quotes

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

Even if states sometimes have problems with each other, arts and sports should not suffer from that. Arts and sports are there to bring the people together - and not to divide them.

Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

People don't buy lady art.

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.

I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.