Quotes About Art

It is impossible to control creation.

In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

The simplest things give me ideas.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

Only sick music makes money today.

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

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.