Art Quotes

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.