- The work of art is a scream of freedom.
- The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
- Pope Paul VI on Art
- The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
- The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
- The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
- Elia Kazan on Art
- The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
- Samuel Butler on Art
- There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
- Gustave Flaubert on Art
- There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
- Morihei Ueshiba on Art
- There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
- Ansel Adams on Art
- There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
- William Osler on Art
- There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
- Andre Gide on Art
- There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
- Billy Sunday on Art
- There is nothing new in art except talent.
- Anton Chekhov on Art
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
- Ansel Adams on Art
- There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
- Samuel Johnson on Art
- There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
- Jane Campion on Art
- There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
- Steve Martin on Art
- There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
- William Shakespeare on Art
- There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
- Jonathan Safran Foer on Art
- There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Things are beautiful if you love them.
- Jean Anouilh on Art
- This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau on Art
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.
- Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
- Robert Browning on Art
- Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
- Saint Augustine on Art
- Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
- Henri Matisse on Art
- To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
- Alexander Calder on Art
- To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Art
- To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Art
- To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Art
- To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.
- Simone De Beauvoir on Art
- To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
- Charles Bukowski on Art
- To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
- Morihei Ueshiba on Art
- To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
- Herman Melville on Art
- To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
- Henri Frederic Amiel on Art
- To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
- Robert Mapplethorpe on Art
- To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- E. M. Forster on Art
- To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.
- Louis C. K. on Art
- To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
- Elliott Erwitt on Art
- To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson on Art
- To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
- Thomas A. Edison on Art
- To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
- Vladimir Nabokov on Art
- To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
- Will Durant on Art
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