Famous Quotes
- What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
- Emir Kusturica on Art
- When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- When art wins, everyone wins.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
- Max Beerbohm on Art
- When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
- Marc Chagall on Art
- When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
- Jim Hodges on Art
- When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
- Agnes Martin on Art
- When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
- Robert Mapplethorpe on Art
- When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
- Denis Diderot on Art
- When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
- Edward Steichen on Art
- When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
- Madeleine L'Engle on Art
- When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
- Marcus Aurelius on Art
- When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Art
- When you create art, the world has to wait.
- Will Smith on Art
- Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Art
- Where thou art, that is home.
- Emily Dickinson on Art
- Wherever art appears, life disappears.
- Robert Motherwell on Art
- Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
- Hippocrates on Art
- While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
- Charles Baudelaire on Art
- Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
- Denis Waitley on Art
- Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
- Herman Hesse on Art
- Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Art
- With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Art
- Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- George Bernard Shaw on Art
- Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
- Albert Camus on Art
- Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill on Art
- Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
- E. M. Forster on Art
- Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
- William Shatner on Art
- Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
- Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.
- Knut Hamsun on Art
- You begin with the possibilities of the material.
- Robert Rauschenberg on Art
- You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
- Gustave Flaubert on Art
- You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
- Tom Stoppard on Art
- You don't take a photograph, you make it.
- Ansel Adams on Art
- You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
- Carly Fiorina on Art
- You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Art
- You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Art
- You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
- George Bernard Shaw on Art
- You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
- Steve Martin on Art
- Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
- Paula Abdul on Art
- Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
- Stanislaw Lec on Art
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