Quotes About Art

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.