Quotes About Art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Die Blüten aller Dinge jeglicher Art flicht Poesie in einen leichten Kranz und so nennt und reimt auch Wilhelmine Gegenden, Zeiten, Begebenheiten, Personen, Spielwerke und Speisen, alles durcheinander in romantischer Verwirrung, so viel Worte so viel Bilder; und das ohne alle Nebenbestimmungen und künstlichen Übergänge, die am Ende doch nur dem Verstande frommen und jeden kühneren Schwung der Fantasie hemmen.

philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art

Der romantische Imperativ fordert die Mischung aller Dichtarten. All Natur und Wissenschaft soll Kunstwerden—Kunst soll Natur werden und Wissenschaft. Imperativ: die Poesie soll sittlich und die Sittlichkeit sollpoetisch sein.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.... Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

I know the Commies were choirboys by comparison—the Nazis at least had a modicum of appreciation for the art they plundered during their days here.

From the '70s and '80s, the following songs immediately spring to my mind as candidates: "The Battle of Evermore," "Spirit of Eden," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," "Close to the Edge," "In Your Eyes," "Thick as a Brick," "Cinema Show," "Echoes," and "The Killing Moon.

During the 18th century, pictures depicting the sex act were distributed more widely in Japan than in any other part of the world, partly because of the earlier invention of the wood-block print and partly because of a great demand by the growing middle class for drawings and paintings. This erotic Japanese art form flowed from a very real tradition—the celebration of sex in the springtime.

I heard the merry grasshopper then sing, The black clad Cricket, bear a second part, They kept one tune, and played on the same string, Seeming to glory in their little Art. Shall Creatures abject, thus their voices raise? And in their kind resound their maker's praise: Whilst I as mute, can warble forth no higher lays?

You're so much more endearing with the sound turned off.

Art is changing lives and motivating the world around us.

ART is found in the very pulse of existence. It's changing lives and motivating the world around us.

The POWER of ART holds true, creating hope, faith, motivation, change and inspiration in ones life. ART is life.. Changing lives and motivating the world around us.

But it's still a big fight to get the work you're really excited about onto shelves. And past that, convincing someone to pay you to do the work that you are most excited about is more than a trick, it's a fucking scam of a magic trick.