Top art Quotes Collection - Page 5

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Image of Walt Disney
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
- Walt Disney
Collection: Art
Image of Tennessee Williams
All good art is an indiscretion.
- Tennessee Williams
Collection: Art
Image of Robert Rauschenberg
An empty canvas is full.
- Robert Rauschenberg
Collection: Art
Image of Paul Strand
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
- Paul Strand
Collection: Art
Image of Marshall McLuhan
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
- Marshall McLuhan
Collection: Art
Image of Lewis Mumford
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
- Lewis Mumford
Collection: Art
Image of Friedrich Schiller
Art is the daughter of freedom.
- Friedrich Schiller
Collection: Art
Image of Andrew Wyeth
One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
- Andrew Wyeth
Collection: Art
Image of Al Capp
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
- Al Capp
Collection: Art
Image of Agnes Martin
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
- Agnes Martin
Collection: Art
Image of Quintilian
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
- Quintilian
Collection: Art
Image of Auguste Rodin
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Auguste Rodin
Collection: Art
Image of Gustave Courbet
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
- Gustave Courbet
Collection: Art
Image of John Singer Sargent
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
- John Singer Sargent
Collection: Art
Image of Emile Zola
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola
Collection: Art
Image of Eugene Ionesco
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
- Eugene Ionesco
Collection: Art
Image of Louis Dudek
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
- Louis Dudek
Collection: Art
Image of Theodore Bikel
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
- Theodore Bikel
Collection: Art
Image of Abraham Lincoln
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Art
Image of Ad Reinhardt
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
- Ad Reinhardt
Collection: Art
Image of Robert Delaunay
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
- Robert Delaunay
Collection: Art
Image of Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
- Iris Murdoch
Collection: Art
Image of J. D. Salinger
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
- J. D. Salinger
Collection: Art
Image of Ellen Key
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
- Ellen Key
Collection: Art
Image of Franklin P. Jones
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
- Franklin P. Jones
Collection: Art
Image of Charles Baudelaire
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
- Charles Baudelaire
Collection: Art
Image of Thomas Hardy
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
- Thomas Hardy
Collection: Art
Image of Paul Rand
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
- Paul Rand
Collection: Art
Image of Kenny Leon
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.
- Kenny Leon
Collection: Art
Image of Georg Cantor
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
- Georg Cantor
Collection: Art
Image of Elliott Erwitt
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
- Elliott Erwitt
Collection: Art
Image of Mos Def
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
- Mos Def
Collection: Art
Image of Jawaharlal Nehru
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Collection: Art
Image of Henri Poincare
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
- Henri Poincare
Collection: Art
Image of Steve Prefontaine
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
- Steve Prefontaine
Collection: Art
Image of Jef I. Richards
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
- Jef I. Richards
Collection: Art
Image of Mitski
I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.
- Mitski
Collection: Art
Image of Ingmar Bergman
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
- Ingmar Bergman
Collection: Art
Image of Albrecht Durer
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
- Albrecht Durer
Collection: Art
Image of Francisco Goya
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
- Francisco Goya
Collection: Art
Image of Virgil Abloh
Art is made in hindsight.
- Virgil Abloh
Collection: Art
Image of Tim Crouch
Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.
- Tim Crouch
Collection: Art
Image of Edvard Munch
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
- Edvard Munch
Collection: Art
Image of Victor Hugo
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: Art
Image of Diogenes
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
- Diogenes
Collection: Art
Image of Christopher Marlowe
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
- Christopher Marlowe
Collection: Art
Image of Saint Augustine
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
- Saint Augustine
Collection: Art
Image of Eddie Vedder
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
- Eddie Vedder
Collection: Art
Image of Jordan Peterson
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
- Jordan Peterson
Collection: Art