- Nature is the art of God.
- Dante Alighieri on Art
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
- Baltasar Gracian on Art
- Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
- Martin Luther on Art
- No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
- John Ruskin on Art
- No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
- Rainer Maria Rilke on Art
- No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
- Theodore Bikel on Art
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
- Ansel Adams on Art
- Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
- Alvar Aalto on Art
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