Famous Quotes
- For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
- Edvard Munch on Art
- For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Art
- For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
- Annie Lennox on Art
- For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
- Vidal Sassoon on Art
- Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Art
- Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
- Victor Hugo on Art
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- C. S. Lewis on Art
- Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
- Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
- Paul Hawken on Art
- Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
- Jonathan Swift on Art
- Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell on Art
- Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan on Art
- Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald on Art
- Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
- Edward Hopper on Art
- Great art picks up where nature ends.
- Marc Chagall on Art
- Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
- Marshall McLuhan on Art
- Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
- Margot Fonteyn on Art
- Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
- John Ruskin on Art
- Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
- Marilyn Manson on Art
- He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
- Arthur Balfour on Art
- He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Art
- He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
- William Blake on Art
- History develops, art stands still.
- E. M. Forster on Art
- History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
- William Morris on Art
- History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
- Joseph Conrad on Art
- Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
- I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
- Damien Hirst on Art
- I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
- Michelangelo on Art
- I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
- Victor Hugo on Art
- I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
- I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
- Henry Adams on Art
- I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
- Michael Palin on Art
- I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
- Judy Chicago on Art
- I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
- Steve Martin on Art
- I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Art
- I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.
- Marilyn Manson on Art
- I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Auguste Rodin on Art
- I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.
- Brad Renfro on Art
- I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
- I cry out for order and find it only in art.
- Helen Hayes on Art
- I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.
- Jane Campion on Art
- I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
- Sydney Pollack on Art
- I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
- David Ogilvy on Art
- I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
- William Morris on Art
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