Art Quotes

• Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

  

  David Elliott
  • Art
  • Why
  • Judge

• Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • May
  • Today
  • Food

• My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

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

  

  Dennis Potter
  • Art
  • Bad

• Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Book
  • Power
  • Nature

• My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • She
  • Mother
  • Marriage

• Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Art
  • Fun

• The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Music
  • Painting
  • Architecture

• We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • World
  • Art

• Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • Art

• I believe that art should sanctify nature.

  

  Maurice Denis
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Nature

• All too often, when people think about art in the U.K., they think London. There's some really great work being produced outside of the capital city and I think it is important to stop and acknowledge that.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Art
  • I Think
  • Acknowledge

• A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Dream
  • Advice
  • Results

• The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

  

  John Chamberlain
  • Thinking
  • Materials
  • Garbage

• I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Art
  • Change
  • New

• We'd visit an art museum in Houston, or a spectacular shoreline vista in Oregon, or attend a political lecture in Boston. And so I found myself getting a special kind of education just witnessing Bill's grasp of what makes our society tick and how business gets done.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Done
  • Business
  • Society

• I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Freedom

• The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.

  

  Lynda Resnick
  • Life
  • Art
  • Forever

• In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.

  

  Brian Wildsmith
  • Work
  • Children
  • Done

• We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

  

  David Elliott
  • Time
  • Live
  • May

• One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Different
  • Art

• I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and you can take the measurements off my drawings. It's like drafting, but it's a work of art - a really beautiful drawing.

  

  Charles Pollock
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Drawing

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