Quotes About Art

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object.

Say it clearly and you make it beautiful, no matter what.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so.

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

I don't understand beauty.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.

Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.