Quotes About Art

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.

Art should be on the side of humanity.

I keep things pretty loose. I'm always attracted to the artists that have a, like a really loose, kind of, human style, you know, you can see, you can tell there's, there's a humanity in there.

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.