Famous Quotes
- To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
- Elliott Erwitt on Art
- To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson on Art
- To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
- Thomas A. Edison on Art
- To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
- Vladimir Nabokov on Art
- To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
- Will Durant on Art
- 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.
- Leo Tolstoy on Art
- To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
- Charles Baudelaire on Art
- To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
- Robert Schumann on Art
- To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
- George Jean Nathan on Art
- To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
- Arthur Conan Doyle on Art
- To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
- Simone Weil on Art
- Translation is the art of failure.
- Umberto Eco on Art
- Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.
- Alanis Morissette on Art
- Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Art
- Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
- Michelangelo on Art
- True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein on Art
- True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
- Alexander Pope on Art
- Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
- Albert Camus on Art
- Trying to force creativity is never good.
- Sarah McLachlan on Art
- Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
- Fran Lebowitz on Art
- Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift on Art
- Vision is the true creative rhythm.
- Robert Delaunay on Art
- Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
- Arthur Erickson on Art
- We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
- Salvador Dali on Art
- We have art in order not to die of the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
- Paulo Coelho on Art
- We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
- Henry James on Art
- We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
- Charlie Sheen on Art
- Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
- Groucho Marx on Art
- Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
- Edgar Allan Poe on Art
- What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
- David Hockney on Art
- What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- John Updike on Art
- What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
- Anatole France on Art
- What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens on Art
- What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
- Henri Matisse on Art
- What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
- What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
- What is art but a way of seeing?
- Saul Bellow on Art
- What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Art
- What is art? Nature concentrated.
- Honore De Balzac on Art
- What is art? Prostitution.
- Charles Baudelaire on Art
- What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
- Steve Martin on Art
- What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
- John Berger on Art
- What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
- Sarah Bernhardt on Art
- What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
- Michel Foucault on Art
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
- W. H. Auden on Art
- What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
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