The Art Quotes

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.