Art Quotations Quotes

#1. With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression in her face, partly spiritual, partly spirituous, and wholly professional and peculiar to her art; Mrs Gamp rummaged in her pocket again [ ... ]

Charles Dickens

#2. I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

Clement Freud

#3. Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John.

William Shakespeare

#8. Aztecs had not only failed to repress the eating of enemy dead,
they were practicing a state-sponsored form of human sacrifice
and cannibalism on a scale never rivaled before or since.

Marvin Harris

#9. Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.

Rudolf Arnheim

#10. Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Samuel Johnson

#12. We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll

George Pratt

#13. Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness.
As long as there is desire, we will not be safe

Tony Hoagland

#14. In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.

Michel Eugene Chevreul

#15. Thinking is an action,

Louise Penny

#16. The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page
they sing a song.

Sarah McCoy

#17. A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#18. Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.

Jonathan Culler