Famous Quotes
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
- Baltasar Gracian on Art
- Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
- Martin Luther on Art
- No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
- John Ruskin on Art
- No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
- Rainer Maria Rilke on Art
- No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
- Theodore Bikel on Art
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
- Ansel Adams on Art
- Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
- Alvar Aalto on Art
- O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
- Christopher Marlowe on Art
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
- Gustave Flaubert on Art
- Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
- David Herbert Lawrence on Art
- Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.
- Marvin Hagler on Art
- Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
- Maynard James Keenan on Art
- One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
- Morihei Ueshiba on Art
- One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
- Thom Yorke on Art
- One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
- Camille Paglia on Art
- One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
- Danica McKellar on Art
- One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
- One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
- Alexander Pope on Art
- 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.
- Joseph Conrad on Art
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
- Marcel Proust on Art
- Originality is the art of concealing your source.
- Franklin P. Jones on Art
- Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurence J. Peter on Art
- Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
- Charles Horton Cooley on Art
- Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
- Camille Paglia on Art
- Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
- Salvador Dali on Art
- Painting is by nature a luminous language.
- Robert Delaunay on Art
- Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
- Edgar Degas on Art
- Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
- Ambrose Bierce on Art
- Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller on Art
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- Honore De Balzac on Art
- Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
- Guy Kawasaki on Art
- Patience is the art of hoping.
- Luc De Clapiers on Art
- People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
- Carmen Electra on Art
- People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
- Mason Cooley on Art
- People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
- David Hockney on Art
- People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
- Claude Monet on Art
- People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov on Art
- People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
- Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
- Aldous Huxley on Art
- Personality is everything in art and poetry.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Art
- Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
- Ambrose Bierce on Art
- Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
- Edward Steichen on Art
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
- Ansel Adams on Art
- Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
- Dorothea Lange on Art
- Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
- Jon Bon Jovi on Art
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