Quotes About Art

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Woman are like aesthetic paintings, each unique in their own way.

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

There's only one woman I know of who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Love is like a painting in the begining it is only an idea, but over time it is built up through errors and corrections till you have a breath taking work of art for all to see.

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all

The message is peace and love, the art is in it's delivery and persistence.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

What is love? In English, a language; In Math, a problem; In History, a war; In Geography, a mountain; In Chemistry, a reaction and in a painting, a heart.

It is through beauty that our heart is inspired to express love.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by overdose, and then his own lung cancer, Doc said, "It was enough to have been a unicorn." What he meant was that he got to do art. It was magic to him that his hands and mind got to make wonderful things, that he didn't have to be just another goat or horse.

On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.