Top 100 Art Is Quotes
#1. Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.
Jerry Yang
#4. The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
#5. An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.
Oscar Wilde
#6. People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.
Lucien Smith
#7. I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
Richard Avedon
#10. Fine art is really something I want to get into.
Adam Jones
#11. Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate ... Who does that directing?
Eric Maisel
#12. I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
PJ Harvey
#13. Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
Laurie Anderson
#15. I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.
Peter Eisenman
#17. Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
Fannie Hurst
#18. Art is aesthetic communication of the soul - in fact, it's the best of that communication - and taken in its entirety has formed a body of work to stand alongside Science and Religion as one of the three great constructs of culture to aid the individual in his or her struggle to survive in Nature.
Anthony Marais
#19. O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
Izaak Walton
#21. What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
Marcel Duchamp
#23. Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Art is a social object, books and films and records and television shows, they're social objects that bring people together in conversation. I love the notion that I could write something that two people could share. That's the goal.
Graham Moore
#25. The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion,
George Inness
#26. Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.
Julianne Moore
#28. When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
Terence McKenna
#29. The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.
Maurice Blondel
#30. The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long. It is not possible to have perfection in life but it is possible to have perfection in a novel.
Elizabeth Taylor
#31. The power of art is the power of truth.
Julian Beck
#32. I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that is the source of us all. When you strike out at someone else's achievement you are attacking your own share of a great gift.
Morgan Llywelyn
#34. You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
Paul Cezanne
#35. Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.
Paulo Coelho
#36. A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.
Wendy Beckett
#37. But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
Frank Stella
#38. We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
Cesare Pavese
#39. Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.
Lawren Harris
#40. Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.
Sophie Calle
#41. Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.
Orison Swett Marden
#43. I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
Paula Cole
#44. There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
Camille Paglia
#45. the object of all great art is beauty, and it makes us nostalgic for God. Whether we consider ourselves people of faith or not, art arouses in us what the pope calls a 'universal desire for redemption.
Ian Morgan Cron
#46. Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.
Jean Baudrillard
#47. All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
Jane Alexander
#48. The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it
Robert Redford
#49. The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
Andre Malraux
#50. Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
Walter Darby Bannard
#51. If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.
John Ridley
#53. Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color
John F. Kennedy
#55. The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.
Robert Genn
#56. Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words.
Robert Henri
#58. Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.
Dennis Hopper
#59. Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.
Sol LeWitt
#60. Art is a kind of rapture. Surrender enough, you find truth.
Kirsty Eagar
#61. No art is possible without a dance with death.
George Carlin
#63. Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
Aldous Huxley
#64. I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate hearing someone play something in a way that I wouldn't.
Joshua Bell
#65. I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
Penn Jillette
#66. Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.
Robertson Davies
#68. Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.
Marcel Duchamp
#69. Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#70. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
#71. Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
Gustave Courbet
#72. The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
Adam Phillips
#73. Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.
Bennie Wallace
#74. Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.
Donnie Burns
#75. The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.
Thomas Kinkade
#76. Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.
Marc Maron
#77. Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#78. It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age ... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress ...
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
#79. Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.
Michael Leunig
#80. I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.
Francis Bacon
#81. Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Audre Lorde
#82. Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.
Lee Strasberg
#83. The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you ...
Lawrence Durrell
#84. Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
Robert M. Pirsig
#86. To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.
Pat Schneider
#87. The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it's to imagine what is possible.
Bell Hooks
#88. If the art is concealed, it succeeds.
Ovid
#89. My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul, that my life left behind
Jeremy Aldana
#91. Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.
Garry Kasparov
#92. Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
Gunter Grass
#93. What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations
Kurt Vonnegut
#95. Artists are supposed to stay hungry." "That's bullshit. That's a myth invented to keep the artist down because art is powerful. You give an artist both money and power and they're dangerous.
Michael Connelly
#96. A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.
Mason Cooley
#97. In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#98. Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual.
Rupert Sheldrake
#100. Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
Corin Nemec
