Quotes about art

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“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.”

“The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.”

“Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.”

“Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value. It is the art of helping your customers become better of.”

“All Nature is but art, unknown to thee
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good.”

“The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.”

“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”

“Less art, more matter”

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”

“We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

“Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.”

“Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

“There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.”

“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain and nourish all the world.”

“Art is sacred.
Punk rock is freedom.
Expression and right to express is vital.
Anyone can be artistic.”

“Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.”

“Art is my life and my life is art.”

“Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning… except its own.”

“No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly," His Highness replied, "…and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”

“Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.”

“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”

“Art is a way of survival.”

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”

“O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven”

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”

“Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature… create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.”

“What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.”

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”

“Art is the proper task of life.”

“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say.”

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”

“To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)”

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”

“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”

“Have you killed anyone?” she asked quickly.
“What? Did you miss what I said, about turning murder into
an art form?”
“But you haven’t actually killed anyone yet, have you? I read
your file.”
He glowered. “Technically, yeah, all right, maybe I haven’t”

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”

“The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”

“To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”

“It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.”

“Art like life is an open secret.”

“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.”

“Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.”

“A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger.”

“Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal.”

“It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.”

“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.”

“Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”

“For where thou art, there is the world itself,
With every several pleasure in the world,
And where thou art not, desolation.”

“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

“Alltami (n.)

The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.”

“To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”

“Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.”

“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”

“In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.”

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

“More matter with less art.”

“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”

“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”

“It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.”

“Sex and art are the same thing.”

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”

“The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.”

“If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.”

“The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.”

“In his early twenties, a man started collecting paintings, many of which later became famous: Picasso, Van Gogh, and others. Over the decades he amassed a wonderful collection. Eventually, the man’s beloved son was drafted into the military and sent to Vietnam, where he died while trying to save his friend. About a month after the war ended, a young man knocked on the devastated father’s door. “Sir,” he said, “I know that you like great art, and I have brought you something not very great.” Inside the package, the father found a portrait of his son. With tears running down his cheeks, the father said, “I want to pay you for this.ℍ “No,” the young man replied, “he saved my life. You don’t owe me anything.ℍ The father cherished the painting and put it in the center of his collection. Whenever people came to visit, he made them look at it. When the man died, his art collection went up for sale. A large crowd of enthusiastic collectors gathered. First up for sale was the amateur portrait. A wave of displeasure rippled through the crowd. “Let’s forget about that painting!” one said. “We want to bid on the valuable ones,” said another. Despite many loud complaints, the auctioneer insisted on starting with the portrait. Finally, the deceased man’s gardener said, “I’ll bid ten dollars.ℍ Hearing no further bids, the auctioneer called out, “Sold for ten dollars!” Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. But then the auctioneer said, “And that concludes the auction.” Furious gasps shook the room. The auctioneer explained, “Let me read the stipulation in the will: “Sell the portrait of my son first, and whoever buys it gets the entire art collection. Whoever takes my son gets everything.ℍ It’s the same way with God Almighty. Whoever takes his Son gets everything.”

“Thou art a very ragged Wart.”

“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”

“What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.”

“What's the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth —
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?”

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.”

“For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them to art forms that rival painting and sculpture in their impact.
(From the forward to "Crafts in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects.”

“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”

“It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.”

“Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.”

“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world… enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.”

“The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you…”

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”