Art Quotes

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.