Quotes About Beauty

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

For art to be art it has to cure.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

Art is what separates us from the animals.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

What's so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven't even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.