Quotes About Art

Art is freedom. Being able to bend things most people see as a straight line.

Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hear

Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)

Art should be seen with the heart, not with the eyes, for its beauty is in the energy it radiates.

Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.

Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper.

Creativity takes courage.

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

If your heart is broken, make art with the pi

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Art is science made clear.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.

I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.