The Art Quotes
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.
You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.