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Quotes About Art

I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!
~ John Keats
Design provides solutions, art asks questions.
~ John Maeda
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
~ John Piper
Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
~ John Ruskin
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
~ John Ruskin
Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.
~ John Ruskin
Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.
~ John Ruskin
I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.
~ John Sayles
Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.
~ John Stuart Mill
I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.
~ John Travolta
Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.
~ John Updike
Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.
~ Unknown
I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day they will be considered equal. They aren't yet. They will be.
~ John Waters
To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.
~ Johnny Weir
What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.
~ Jon Glaser
[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.
~ Jon Gordon
Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined, it became Laguardia School of Arts.
~ Jon Gordon
Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.
~ Jonathan Demme
I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.
~ Jonathan Lethem
It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.
~ Jonathon Keats
The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
~ Joni Mitchell
Im inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.
~ Jordi Molla
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
~ Jorge Luís Borges