- The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
- George Santayana on Art
- The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
- The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Art
- The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
- David Hockney on Art
- The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Francis Bacon on Art
- The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein on Art
- The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Art
- The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
- Robert Hughes on Art
- The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
- Lenny Bruce on Art
- The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
- Gustave Flaubert on Art
- The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- The perfection of art is to conceal art.
- Quintilian on Art
- The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
- Og Mandino on Art
- The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
- Arthur Koestler on Art
- The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
- Jerzy Kosinski on Art
- The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
- Jerzy Kosinski on Art
- The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?
- David Foster Wallace on Art
- The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
- Golda Meir on Art
- The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
- Edward Hopper on Art
- The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
- Jean Cocteau on Art
- The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
- E. M. Forster on Art
- The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
- Stanley Kubrick on Art
- The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard on Art
- The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
- Samuel Butler on Art
- The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
- The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
- Andre Gide on Art
- The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
- Jackson Pollock on Art
- The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
- Theodor Adorno on Art
- The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
- Salvador Dali on Art
- The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
- Edward Hopper on Art
- The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- Samuel Johnson on Art
- The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
- Michelangelo on Art
- The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
- Carl Rogers on Art
- The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
- Henry Miller on Art
- The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
- Anton Chekhov on Art
- The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
- Robert Louis Stevenson on Art
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France on Art
- The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
- Keanu Reeves on Art
- The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
- E. M. Forster on Art
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