Quotes About Art

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than pop. I've always been annoyed by that.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!

I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth.

If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.

In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms!

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or some sort of madness", she said.

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.