Quotes About Beauty

Art is not only about angst.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.