Art Quotes

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless.

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times

Form follows emotion

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client.

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

Art is what you get away with

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

I must have flowers, always and always.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough—see point one.

It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects. Art works for all whom it can touch.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.

To become a work of art is the object of living.

If something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous worship of facts, art will become sterile and beauty will pass away from the land.

Art never comes from happiness

art is never finished, only abandoned

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou, then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.

A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated—as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.

In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other.That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art.

My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It’s a mystery!

The best of all lost arts is honesty

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.Come let us fart in the home.There is no art in a fart.Still a fart may not be artless.Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher.

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.