Top 100 Quotes About Art
#1. Art was creating something new, not mimicking something already in existence. What
Jeff Lindsay
#2. Politics is the art of making civilization work.
Louis L'Amour
#3. We are the measure of all things.
And the beauty of our creation, of our art
is proportional to the beauty of ourselves
of our souls.
Jonas Mekas
#4. If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.
Ray Conniff
#5. Do go on doing a lot of walking and keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see. And there are painters who never do anything that is no good...
Vincent Van Gogh
#6. Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
Yann Martel
#8. I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.
John D'Agata
#9. Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.
Gabe Newell
#10. It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?
Czeslaw Milosz
#11. Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.
Julianne Moore
#12. We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it.
Seamus Heaney
#13. A miniaturist creates his art by heeding his conscience and by obeying the principles in which he believes, fearing nothing. he pays no attention to what his enemies, the zealots and those who envy him have to say.
Orhan Pamuk
#14. FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. Dirty talk is an art. Do it too often, it becomes routine. Never do it, and you're missing something. Simon did it just right. He was like a perfect bowl of smutty porridge: just right.
Alice Clayton
#16. If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Matthew Modine
#17. The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
Thomas Aquinas
#18. I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.
Aman Mojadidi
#19. It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
Leo Strauss
#20. Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait in patience, till light arises out of darkness and leads thee.
James Nayler
#21. Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
Marcel Duchamp
#22. What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death.
William Shakespeare
#23. I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
Ang Lee
#24. In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.
Piet Mondrian
#26. If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.
Starhawk
#27. I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.
Billie Burke
#28. Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.
Jack White
#29. No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
Michelangelo
#30. Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.
Gore Vidal
#31. Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more fulfilled person than they can ever be because they're caught up in what they hate rather than what they love.
Andy Biersack
#32. I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.
Tracey Emin
#33. [Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.
Charles Lloyd
#34. Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.
Richard Hamming
#37. It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.
Michael Haneke
#38. When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.
Stephanie Beacham
#39. 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
#41. I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.
Joss Whedon
#43. People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#44. Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.
Deepak Chopra
#45. 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
#46. Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Aldous Huxley
#47. Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.
Madonna Ciccone
#48. REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose
Ambrose Bierce
#49. I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.
Tony Kaye
#51. I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
Ian MacKaye
#52. 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
#53. The power of art is the power of truth.
Julian Beck
#55. As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
Stephen Bayley
#57. The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.
Clifford Ross
#58. 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
#59. I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.
John Luther Adams
#60. Does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
Eleanora Duse
#61. Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown.
- Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After"
from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache
Clint Catalyst
#63. 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
#64. Photography is the art of not pushing the button.
Frank Horvat
#65. All I want to do is give the world my heart ... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
Erykah Badu
#66. Relationships are as much a work of art as a drawing. It takes time. It takes a lot of erasing, smudging, and redoing. In the end, it's usually worth it. Sometimes, it's not.
R.K. Ryals
#67. Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.
Annie Dillard
#68. The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking.
Pearl Zhu
#70. My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.
Kanye West
#71. The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#72. Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.
Edgar Alwin Payne
#73. I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.
Emmy Rossum
#74. Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who'll break my Heart
Cassandra Clare
#75. Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.
Paulo Coelho
#76. Every season has its own art and the art of autumn is to bewitch the people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.
Sonia Delaunay
#78. A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.
Wendy Beckett
#79. For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world.
Robert Motherwell
#80. 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
#81. Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
Banksy
#84. I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
Paula Cole
#85. Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
Emmanuel Jal
#86. One of the reasons you can't learn everything you need to know about leadership from a seminar or a book is that leadership is, ultimately, an art.
Mark Rutland
#88. I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the art world and not the other way around. Artists and other people of intelligence have the power to bring deeper content to our culture.
Thornton Willis
#89. People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.
Pete Hamill
#90. I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.
L.M. Montgomery
#91. There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.
Dan Wakefield
#92. My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#93. Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.
Thomas Middleditch
#94. 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
#96. I think it's a really good idea to be bumping into all kinds of people in all kinds of ways. So you make art with strangers. You give a reading. You move somewhere new and try to build a life. You grapple with humanity.
Laurel Nakadate
#98. When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior.
Steven Sinofsky
#99. There's a mysterious alter ego in everyone. Some call it hallucination, some call it art.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#100. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
Alexander Pope
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