Art Quotes
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Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.
Paul Klee
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Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.
Nicholas Serota
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There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
Ernst Gombrich
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Art can articulate new ideas.
Haris Pasovic
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.
Edward Gordon Craig
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Art is activism.
Angie Thomas
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It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.
Mike Mills
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Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.
Washington Allston
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I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.
Berenice Marlohe
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I'm an excuse for medical experiments and art theory. You must get me out of here and out of the hospital.
Peter Greenaway
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Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Art is doing something you really believe in.
Ray Toro My Chemical Romance
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Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.
Marilyn Minter
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I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art.
El Greco
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Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.
Amy Heckerling
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Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.
Paul Klee
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When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.
Carole Maso
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Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.
Ed Kowalczyk
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Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
Nicholas Sparks
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Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.
William Howard Taft
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I’m not as cool as you think I think I might be – and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art’s kind of important, too.
Corey Feldman