Art Quotes
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You just can't control your art in the future.
Damian Loeb
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.
Albert Einstein
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Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov -
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
Andre Kertesz
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
Edgar Degas
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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.
James Fenton
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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
Barry McGee
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso
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I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
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Paint the essential character of things.
Camille Pissarro
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
Samuel Daniel
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When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
Erykah Badu
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I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.
David Means
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Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity; to all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
Marcel Duchamp
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He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
Machado de Assis
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
Irina Shayk
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
Karen Blixen
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
C. J. Cherryh
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
Barry McGee
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Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.
Kailash Kher
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
Barbara Januszkiewicz