Art Quotes

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

Northrop Frye
- People
- Values
- Impossible
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

Ansel Adams
- Music
- Art
- Photograph

Art is not meant to change the world.

JR artist
- Art
- Change
- Meant
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Ezra Pound
- Art
- Poetry
- Sculpture
To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.

Cate Marvin
Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years.

Wolfgang Laib
Art is a jealous mistress.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Art
To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.

Stephen Covey
- Easy
- Grace
- Gratitude