Quotes About Art

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to 'Wow! Huh?'

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Why talk when you can paint?

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.