- The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola on Art
- The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
- Auguste Rodin on Art
- The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
- Cyril Connolly on Art
- The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
- Eugene Delacroix on Art
- The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
- Paul Strand on Art
- The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon on Art
- The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
- Paul Getty on Art
- The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
- Charles De Lint on Art
- The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
- Eric Hoffer on Art
- The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Art
- The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
- Martha Graham on Art
- The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Art
- The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
- Erich Fromm on Art
- The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
- Hillary Clinton on Art
- The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
- Edward Tufte on Art
- The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
- Gertrude Stein on Art
- The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Art
- The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson on Art
- The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.
- Gustave Flaubert on Art
- The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
- Doris Humphrey on Art
- The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
- Arthur Erickson on Art
- The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
- Saul Williams on Art
- The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
- Alfred Adler on Art
- The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
- George Santayana on Art
- The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
- Orson Welles on Art
- The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
- Dale Carnegie on Art
- The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Art
- The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
- John Keats on Art
- The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
- Aldous Huxley on Art
- The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
- Lester Bangs on Art
- The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
- William Blake on Art
- The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
- Louise Brooks on Art
- The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
- Lord Byron on Art
- The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
- Walter Benjamin on Art
- The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer on Art
- The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
- Abraham Lincoln on Art
- The history of art is the history of revivals.
- Samuel Butler on Art
- The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
- Paul Gauguin on Art
- The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
- George Edward Moore on Art
- The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Art
- The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
- Maynard James Keenan on Art
- The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
- Robert Morgan on Art
- The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
- Thomas Aquinas on Art
- The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
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