Top art Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Jean Rostand
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
- Jean Rostand
Collection: Art
Image of Jay Kay
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
- Jay Kay
Collection: Art
Image of Chuck Close
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
- Chuck Close
Collection: Art
Image of Maurice Chevalier
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
- Maurice Chevalier
Collection: Art
Image of Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Art
Image of Joshua Reynolds
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
- Joshua Reynolds
Collection: Art
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Art
Image of Barbara Hepworth
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
- Barbara Hepworth
Collection: Art
Image of Herbert Read
Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
- Herbert Read
Collection: Art
Image of John Keats
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
- John Keats
Collection: Art
Image of Aldous Huxley
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
- Aldous Huxley
Collection: Art
Image of Seamus Heaney
The end of art is peace.
- Seamus Heaney
Collection: Art
Image of Fernando Botero
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
- Fernando Botero
Collection: Art
Image of William McDonough
We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.
- William McDonough
Collection: Art
Image of Wangechi Mutu
I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.
- Wangechi Mutu
Collection: Art
Image of Anthony Hopkins
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
- Anthony Hopkins
Collection: Art
Image of Pythagoras
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Pythagoras
Collection: Art
Image of Ellen Ullman
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
- Ellen Ullman
Collection: Art
Image of CeeLo Green
Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.
- CeeLo Green
Collection: Art
Image of Bruno Bettelheim
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
- Bruno Bettelheim
Collection: Art
Image of Franz Marc
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
- Franz Marc
Collection: Art
Image of Lana Del Rey
I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.
- Lana Del Rey
Collection: Art
Image of Jim Morrison
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
- Jim Morrison
Collection: Art
Image of Angelus Silesius
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
- Angelus Silesius
Collection: Art
Image of Walter Pater
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
- Walter Pater
Collection: Art
Image of Otto Dix
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
- Otto Dix
Collection: Art
Image of Jason Reitman
Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.
- Jason Reitman
Collection: Art
Image of Steven Wilson
Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It's something you can hold, pore over the lyrics, and immerse yourself in the art work.
- Steven Wilson
Collection: Art
Image of Mary Cassatt
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
- Mary Cassatt
Collection: Art
Image of Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- Aristotle
Collection: Art
Image of Milan Kundera
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
- Milan Kundera
Collection: Art
Image of Philip Johnson
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
- Philip Johnson
Collection: Art
Image of William Samuel Johnson
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
- William Samuel Johnson
Collection: Art
Image of Lorraine Hansberry
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
- Lorraine Hansberry
Collection: Art
Image of J. R. R. Tolkien
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Collection: Art
Image of Renzo Piano
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
- Renzo Piano
Collection: Art
Image of Ken Loach
I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.
- Ken Loach
Collection: Art
Image of K. D. Lang
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
- K. D. Lang
Collection: Art
Image of Daniel Caesar
Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.
- Daniel Caesar
Collection: Art
Image of Russell Simmons
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
- Russell Simmons
Collection: Art
Image of Richard Branson
The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
- Richard Branson
Collection: Art
Image of Marilyn Manson
My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.
- Marilyn Manson
Collection: Art
Image of John Constable
The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.
- John Constable
Collection: Art
Image of Susan Vreeland
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
- Susan Vreeland
Collection: Art
Image of Benjamin Jowett
Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
- Benjamin Jowett
Collection: Art
Image of Pablo Picasso
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
- Pablo Picasso
Collection: Art
Image of Kailash Kher
Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.
- Kailash Kher
Collection: Art
Image of Helen Frankenthaler
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
- Helen Frankenthaler
Collection: Art
Image of Jean-Luc Godard
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Collection: Art