Quotes About Art

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.