Art Quotes

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

Nalini Nadkarni
- Change
- Grief
- Racism
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Christian Morgenstern
- Art

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.

William Shakespeare
- Death
- Journey
- Rich
It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.

Vincent Price
- Fall
- Endless
- Cracks
I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that's true.

David Mixner
- People
- Power
- True
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Vincent D'Onofrio
- Art
- Try
- Wealth
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

Vladimir Nabokov
- Soul
- Teach
- Kindness
I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.

Phil Lord
- Art
- Power