Quotes About Beauty

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

Art is seduction, not rape.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

Art is what is irresistible.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

Art does not explain.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Art never lies, I believe.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

Art has to address eternal issues.

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.