Art Quotes

The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.

Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Work
- Writing
- Book
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Paul Gauguin

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

T. S. Eliot
- Art
What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Art
- Artists
- Seduce
We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.

Lionel Trilling
- Life
- Mind
- Nature
When art wins, everyone wins.

Jerry Saltz
- Art
One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

James Baldwin
- Life
- Real
- Experience
There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.

Kurt Elling
- Music
- Humanity
- Spiritual