Art Quotes
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I would love to be able to share my artwork with as many people as possible so that I can help spread an appreciation for art in general.
Yusaku Maezawa
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I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
Conrad Hall
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For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.
William Davenant
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Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know.
Ai Weiwei
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Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.
Clyde Butcher
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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.
William Friedkin
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I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
Pablo Picasso
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Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.
Jerome Charyn
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And I find art is something that gives you something that you need for your life. Just as religion is something that you need even if you constantly find it denied today.
Anni Albers
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Just as a Philistine does not on the whole devote his life to his art, so a misogynist does not devote his inner life to women. Larkin's men friends devolved into pen-pals. Such intimacies as he shared, he shared with women.
Martin Amis
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
Andy Rooney
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There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.
Northrop Frye
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There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?
W. H. Auden
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem de Kooning
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What if the Big Three automakers made products that were simple and easy to use - imagine a car with a user interface made by Apple - while also constantly trying to push the state of the art? What if they constantly sought out new technologies and ideas, and incorporated them into their products?
Daniel Lyons
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
Antonio Banderas
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I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.
Nick Mason Pink Floyd
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I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
Chuck Klosterman
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Civility is the art and act of caring for others.
Deborah King
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
John Ruskin