Famous Quotes
- Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
- Henry Miller on Art
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
- W. H. Auden on Art
- Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
- Harry S. Truman on Art
- Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
- Theodor Adorno on Art
- Art is science made clear.
- Wilson Mizner on Art
- Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
- Jennifer Aniston on Art
- Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
- Christian Bale on Art
- Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
- Kary Mullis on Art
- Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
- Elbert Hubbard on Art
- Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide on Art
- Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
- Agnes Martin on Art
- Art is the daughter of freedom.
- Friedrich Schiller on Art
- Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
- Amy Lowell on Art
- Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
- Claude Debussy on Art
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
- John Donne on Art
- Art is the objectification of feeling.
- Herman Melville on Art
- Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
- Twyla Tharp on Art
- Art is the proper task of life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
- Friedrich Schiller on Art
- Art is the signature of civilizations.
- Beverly Sills on Art
- Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
- Theodore Dreiser on Art
- Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
- William Blake on Art
- Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
- Gian Carlo Menotti on Art
- Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
- Edgar Degas on Art
- Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
- Ani DiFranco on Art
- Art lies by its own artifice.
- Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
- Ani DiFranco on Art
- Art must take reality by surprise.
- Francoise Sagan on Art
- Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
- T. S. Eliot on Art
- Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
- Alfred De Vigny on Art
- Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
- Jean Cocteau on Art
- Art raises its head where creeds relax.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
- Gustave Flaubert on Art
- Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
- Jeanette Winterson on Art
- Art seduces, but does not exploit.
- Mason Cooley on Art
- Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
- Ludwig Van Beethoven on Art
- Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
- Dante Alighieri on Art
- Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
- Stephen Sondheim on Art
- Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Art
- Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
- Anish Kapoor on Art
- Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
- Paddy Chayefsky on Art
- Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
- Robert Smithson on Art
- Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
- Gustave Flaubert on Art
- Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
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