Quotes About Art

Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.