Quotes About Art

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

Finding beauty in the dissonance.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

I find beauty in melancholy.

Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.