Quotes About Art

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.