- Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Education is the art of making man ethical.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on Art
- Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
- George V. Higgins on Art
- Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
- Ambrose Bierce on Art
- Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
- Jean Cocteau on Art
- Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
- Harold Coffin on Art
- Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
- Isaac Newton on Art
- Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
- Bertrand Russell on Art
- Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
- Aldous Huxley on Art
- Even a true artist does not always produce art.
- Carroll O'Connor on Art
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
- C. S. Lewis on Art
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Art
- Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Art
- Every artist writes his own autobiography.
- Havelock Ellis on Art
- Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
- Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer on Art
- Every good painter paints what he is.
- Jackson Pollock on Art
- Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
- Malcolm Muggeridge on Art
- Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz on Art
- Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
- Thomas Edward Brown on Art
- Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
- Edward Steichen on Art
- Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
- W. Somerset Maugham on Art
- Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
- Will Durant on Art
- Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
- Louis Kahn on Art
- Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
- Theodor Adorno on Art
- Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
- Claude Monet on Art
- Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
- Raymond Chandler on Art
- Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
- Theodor Adorno on Art
- Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
- Charles Baudelaire on Art
- Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.
- Charles Baudelaire on Art
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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