Art Quotes
Quotes about Art
177 quotes
- “I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into somet...” — Lincoln Michel
- “He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–--Manet to Monet, on ...” — Edouard Manet
- “Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to...” — Roy Blount
- “Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a mast...” — Michelle C. Hillstrom
- “Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can't do it. You can't expect them to l...” — Dakota Lane
- “Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and reall...” — St. Vincent
- “Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially in...” — Peter Davis
- “He printed business cards celebrating his shift. They read, 'Ars gratia pecuniae.' Translated, it meant, 'Art for money'...” — Kliph Nesteroff
- “Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who yo...” — Darryl Anka
- “If exercise was sold in the pill form, it would be the number pill sold throughout the world because the benefits are en...” — Renee Dumont
- “Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it pr...” — Kia Carrington-russell
- “That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters a...” — Zoe Whittall
- “I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve...” — Nan Goldin
- “Strange satisfaction of organizing pencil crayons and sharpening them (the way I used to enjoy sharpening wax crayons as...” — Cheyanne Ratnam
- “Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with ...” — Viola Di Grado
- “A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, 'You don't pay for art,...” — Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
- “The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own ben...” — Michael Gungor
- “I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I ...” — Sarah Thornton
- “Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experie...” — Paul Mellon
- “When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordin...” — Roman Coppola
- “My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real l...” — Kinan Azmeh
- “She never looked nice.She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel someth...” — Eleanor Park - Rainbow Rowell.
- “It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above t...” — Hillman Curtis
- “Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambigu...” — Scott Farris
- “At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and import...” — M.c. Escher
- “sacred knowledge of the cosmos seems to be hidden within our souls and is shown within our artwork and creative expressi...” — Nikki Shiva
- “Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being was...” — Danny Gregory
- “Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dar...” — Dennis Etchison
- “Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we ha...” — Louis I. Kahn
- “Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typograp...” — Tristan Tzara
- “Part of the artist's job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventiona...” — Sally Mann
- “Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (180...” — Benjamin Constant
- “I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational...” — Charles Jencks
- “I've found that people reveal nothing of their true selves except within their art and their sin." ~ Dacey Sinnett, 'ROA...” — Dez Schwartz
- “cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an even...” — Harold Rosenberg
- “There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.” — Ross Wetzsteon
- “Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.” — Matthew Gallaway
- “Designers and free lance artists and editors can set their hourly rates by dividing their annual income needs by 1000.” — Mike Rider
- “Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal” — Kate Taylor
- “Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.” — Tim Robbins
- “The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.” — Joanne Greenberg
- “In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.” — Stephen Greenblatt
- “Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.” — Charles Ray
- “Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.” — Tara Dobbs
- “Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.” — Ernest L. Boyer
- “The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized.” — Mel Chin
- “Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.” — Vincent Price
- “Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.” — Ossie Davis
- “After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism” — Niall Ferguson
- “Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.” — Ben Shneiderman