Quotes About Art

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

The artist is called a creator.

The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.

Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.

Sharing information, art, music, and everything on the internet now has become a part of everyone's lives.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

Art theft gave a guy an appetite.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.