- We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
- Pablo Picasso on Art
- We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
- Salvador Dali on Art
- We have art in order not to die of the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
- Paulo Coelho on Art
- We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
- Henry James on Art
- We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
- Charlie Sheen on Art
- Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
- Groucho Marx on Art
- Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
- Edgar Allan Poe on Art
- What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
- David Hockney on Art
- What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- John Updike on Art
- What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
- Anatole France on Art
- What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens on Art
- What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
- Henri Matisse on Art
- What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
- What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
- What is art but a way of seeing?
- Saul Bellow on Art
- What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Art
- What is art? Nature concentrated.
- Honore De Balzac on Art
- What is art? Prostitution.
- Charles Baudelaire on Art
- What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
- Steve Martin on Art
- What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
- John Berger on Art
- What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
- Sarah Bernhardt on Art
- What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
- Michel Foucault on Art
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
- W. H. Auden on Art
- What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
- Emir Kusturica on Art
- When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Art
- When art wins, everyone wins.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
- Max Beerbohm on Art
- When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
- Marc Chagall on Art
- When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
- Jim Hodges on Art
- When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
- Agnes Martin on Art
- When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
- Robert Mapplethorpe on Art
- When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
- Denis Diderot on Art
- When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
- Edward Steichen on Art
- When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
- Madeleine L'Engle on Art
- When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
- Marcus Aurelius on Art
- When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Art
- When you create art, the world has to wait.
- Will Smith on Art
- Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Art
- Where thou art, that is home.
- Emily Dickinson on Art
- Wherever art appears, life disappears.
- Robert Motherwell on Art
- Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
- Hippocrates on Art
- While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
- Charles Baudelaire on Art
- Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
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