Art Quotes
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Oscar Wilde
I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
Harbhajan Singh
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
Paracelsus
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
E. L. Doctorow
The law of simplicity and naivety applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
F. Sionil Jose
The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. Lucas
I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
Imelda May
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Albert Einstein
If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art
Angelus Silesius
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali
No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
Oscar Wilde
I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
Laurance Rockefeller
