Quotes About Art

Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're not the first to die.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

The truest protest is beauty.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.