Famous Art Quotes
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
Nature's landscapes are like works of art that leave us in awe and wonder.
All art is quite useless.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
The best art conceals art.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Resolve and thou art free.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Cats are experts in the art of finding comfort and coziness in the smallest of spaces.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Cats are the masters of relaxation and can teach us the art of taking it easy.
