Quotes About Art

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

A man posing for a painting.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.