Art Quotes

We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
- Art
- Night
- Learning
The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.

Patti Smith
- Life
- Mind
- Art

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings – meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

Edward Lucie-Smith
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Paddy Chayefsky
- Work
- Thinking
- Writing
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Dean Acheson
- Art
- Past
- Present
Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

Edward Bond
- World
- Hope
- Faith
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Charles Horton Cooley
- Art
'Tis certainly a kind of indignity to philosophy, whose sovereign authority ought every where to be acknowledg'd, to oblige her on every occasion to make apologies for her conclusions, and justify herself to every particular art and science, which may be offended at her.

David Hume
- Art
- May
- Science