Art Quotes

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

That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.

Art is anything you can get away with.

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

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

I believe only in art and failure.

Love-making is an art which must be studied.

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

An art book is a museum without walls.

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

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.