Quotes About Art

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.