Famous Quotes
- As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
- Albrecht Durer on Art
- As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
- Thomas Guthrie on Art
- At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
- At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
- Jim Henson on Art
- Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.
- Joni Mitchell on Art
- Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
- John Wooden on Art
- Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
- Martin Luther on Art
- Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
- Jean Rostand on Art
- Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
- Camille Paglia on Art
- Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
- Laura Riding on Art
- Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
- Drew Barrymore on Art
- Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
- Henry Rollins on Art
- Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
- Andy Warhol on Art
- Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang on Art
- Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
- Toni Morrison on Art
- Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
- James Wolcott on Art
- Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
- Alvar Aalto on Art
- Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
- Ernest Hemingway on Art
- But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
- Wole Soyinka on Art
- By the work one knows the workman.
- Jean De La Fontaine on Art
- Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Art
- Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
- Henry Louis Gates on Art
- Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
- Blaise Pascal on Art
- Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
- Catherine Deneuve on Art
- Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
- Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson on Art
- Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
- Bryant H. McGill on Art
- Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
- Jef I. Richards on Art
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams on Art
- Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
- George Jean Nathan on Art
- Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
- George Jean Nathan on Art
- Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
- Thomas Wolfe on Art
- Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
- William Hazlitt on Art
- Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
- John Updike on Art
- Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
- Edward Koch on Art
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- Victor Hugo on Art
- Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
- John Donne on Art
- Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
- Alice Walker on Art
- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken on Art
- Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Art
- Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
- Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers on Art
- Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
- David Frost on Art
- Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
- Henry A. Kissinger on Art
- Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
- Malcolm Forbes on Art
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