Art Quotes
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
Willa Cather
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Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
William Shakespeare
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
Hippocrates
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Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
Ezra Pound
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A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.
Esperanza Spalding
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When I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !
Ethel Smyth
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have a different perspective. It's not just an advertisement with one single message that has some authority, political or not.
Camille Henrot
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Art is only a way of expressing pain.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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I wrote my own first book about the defense of television as an art form in 1992. It was harder to make the argument then. Now it seems absolutely a given. You can argue about when the Platinum Age Of Television begins, but I don't think that anybody can argue that it's not here.
Art Book Thinking Age Arguing Argument
David Bianculli
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I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.
Allan Kaprow
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David has shown our theater community what can be accomplished with responsible management practices that are also serious about art.
Chris Smith
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The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art.
Ellen Kushner
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
D. T. Suzuki
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Art is literacy of the heart.
Elliot W. Eisner
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.
Michael Leunig
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One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.
Eugene Souleiman
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The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it.
Jonathan Kellerman
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What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
Lupita Nyong'o
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By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
Cato the Younger
