Art Quotes

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."

All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique. All artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.

Art as far as it is able follows nature as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be as it were God's grandchild.

A picture is a poem without words.

It's clever but is it art?

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

I like to learn. That's an art and a science.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.

I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.

Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.

Art fuels the fire inside me.

An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself.

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

Open spaces sing to my heartof the art of nature and the nature of art.

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice, and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art.

Art is an imagination, crafted over innocent dreams and vibrant integrity.

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

The object of art is to give life a light through which you can imagine and see the world.

Art is an expression of inner perception as an outer reality.

Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs.