- In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
- Terry Pratchett on Art
- In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
- In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Art
- Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
- Susan Sontag on Art
- Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
- James Joyce on Art
- Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
- Havelock Ellis on Art
- It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
- Isadora Duncan on Art
- It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
- Henry Moore on Art
- It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
- Jack White on Art
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden on Art
- It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Art
- It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
- Max Eastman on Art
- It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
- Henry James on Art
- It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
- Nicolas Chamfort on Art
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
- Charles Baudelaire on Art
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
- John Ruskin on Art
- It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
- It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
- Tom Stoppard on Art
- It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
- Wilson Mizner on Art
- It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
- Walter Hagen on Art
- It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
- Robert Browning on Art
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein on Art
- It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
- George Santayana on Art
- It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
- Ezra Pound on Art
- It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
- David Byrne on Art
- It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
- Dave Barry on Art
- It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden on Art
- It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
- Eddie Vedder on Art
- It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
- Robert Redford on Art
- It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- It's clever, but is it Art?
- Rudyard Kipling on Art
- It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
- Camille Paglia on Art
- It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
- Henry Louis Gates on Art
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