Art Comes In Many Forms Quotes

#1. The consolation of art comes in many forms ... For some it is making, for others it is having.

Michael Kimmelman

#2. Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Meyer Schapiro

#3. The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business - all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

Daniel J. Levitin

#4. The forms art takes keep changing, but the themes remain the same.

Marty Rubin

#5. The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

Susan Sontag

#6. As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore.

Aldous Huxley

#7. The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form ... I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Georges Braque

#8. Wrestling is like any form of drama or pretty much any form of entertainment - some people understand this about forms of entertainment really intuitively when they're younger, and others would have to be really not very intelligent for a long time until we realize that every human mood is an art.

John Darnielle

#9. I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

Mika.

#10. I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.

Erykah Badu

#11. I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

Jonathan Lethem

#12. Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#13. A liberal education forms ... a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#14. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Elliot W. Eisner

#15. Art needs motives that are more profound than profit if it is to maintain its difference from - and position above - other cultural forms.

Sarah Thornton

#16. There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms. (p. 12)

James Gurney