Art Quotes
Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.
Seth Godin
Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.
Stanley Spencer
Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.
Thomas Eakins
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.
Northrop Frye
I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it since I was a child. I would find it in pieces of art, music, flowers, trees. Now I've come full circle finding God in clouds, flowers, and trees.
Sandra Cisneros
Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.
Robert Rodriguez
Chingon
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.
Eli Siegel
With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!
William Wordsworth
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
Stanley Kubrick
I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.
Vita Sackville-West
As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.
Seth Godin
Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.
Neil Marcus
