Quotes About Art

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

...you don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.