Art Quotes

• Art is craft, not inspiration.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Art
  • Crafts

• Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Spirit
  • Beauty
  • Realities

• Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • World
  • Art
  • Multiple

• Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Moments

• I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Color

• Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Hurt
  • Constructive

• Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Art
  • Nature

• In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

  

  Tina Weymouth
  • Important
  • Art
  • Europe

• The way of life of Die Brücke artists though strange to the ordinary man, was not meant to shock, it was a pure and simple compulsion to integrate art and life.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Strange
  • Compulsion
  • Way Of Life

• With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • People
  • Art
  • Role

• Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

  

  William Cowper
  • Sound
  • Gone
  • Farewell

• The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Art
  • Kind
  • Works

• The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Art
  • Acting

• There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Art
  • Writer

• The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • inspirational
  • Ability
  • Term

• I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Art

• I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Art
  • Ambiguous

• Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.

  

  Alvin Curran
  • Music
  • Love
  • Trust

• Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce

  

  Naum Gabo
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Communicate

• It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.

  

  David Bowie
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Grace

• I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).

  

  Ally Carter
  • Change
  • Uniform
  • Spy Movies

• I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Game
  • Artist
  • Photographed

• First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Philosophy
  • Profession
  • Income

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

  

  Wolfgang Laib
  • Years
  • Century
  • Connections

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