Famous Quotes
- All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
- All art is quite useless.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- All good art is an indiscretion.
- Tennessee Williams on Art
- All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
- Leslie Fiedler on Art
- All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
- John Ruskin on Art
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Honore De Balzac on Art
- All I owe the world is my art.
- Sherman Alexie on Art
- All in the Family was intellectual it was art.
- Carroll O'Connor on Art
- All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
- Ann Landers on Art
- All nature is but art unknown to thee.
- Alexander Pope on Art
- All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
- John Ruskin on Art
- All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
- Havelock Ellis on Art
- All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
- Thomas Browne on Art
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
- W. H. Auden on Art
- Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
- Nicolaus Copernicus on Art
- An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Art
- An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
- Thomas Mann on Art
- An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
- Charles Horton Cooley on Art
- An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
- Jean Cocteau on Art
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- George Santayana on Art
- An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- Henry Miller on Art
- An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
- Edgard Varese on Art
- An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
- James Whistler on Art
- An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
- Andy Warhol on Art
- An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
- Paul Valery on Art
- And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
- Beatrice Wood on Art
- And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
- Rudyard Kipling on Art
- Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
- Norman McLaren on Art
- Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Edith Wharton on Art
- Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Rebecca West on Art
- Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
- Frank Wedekind on Art
- Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
- Joseph Conrad on Art
- Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
- David Hockney on Art
- Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
- Philip Johnson on Art
- Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.
- Russell Simmons on Art
- Art and science have their meeting point in method.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton on Art
- Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Art
- Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
- Marshall McLuhan on Art
- Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- Alfred North Whitehead on Art
- Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
- Mason Cooley on Art
- Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
- Andre Gide on Art
- Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
- William Blake on Art
- Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
- Hans Hofmann on Art
- Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Art
- Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.
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