Art Quotes
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Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced
action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.
Seamus Heaney
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By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
James Henry Breasted
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Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.
Emily Haines
Broken Social Scene
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The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.
Randall Jarrell
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
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Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
Ellen Terry
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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
Ralph Ellison
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The individual will reach total consciousness as a social being, which is equivalent to the full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken. This will be translated concretely into the reconquering of one's true nature through liberated labor, and the expression of one's own human condition through culture and art.
Che Guevara
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I made the photographs just like I draw.. .I wanted the photographs Kelly made circa 1950 in Paris to be enlightening to my art..
Ellsworth Kelly
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Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
Leo Tolstoy
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
Emile Zola
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Having acknowledged the measure of the good to be pleasure, i.e., beauty, the European upper classes went back in their comprehension of art to the gross conception of the primitive Greeks which Plato had already condemned. And with this understanding of life, a theory of art was formulated.
Leo Tolstoy
