Art Quotes

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.

David B. Coe
- Believe
- Book
- Learning
Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

William Shakespeare
- Art
- Beautiful
- Wise

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

Lafcadio Hearn
- Art
- Subject
- Idealism
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Charles Baudelaire
- Art
- Evil
- Effort
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

Marcus Aurelius
- Art
- Universe
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Hans Hofmann
- Power
- Soul
- Science
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.

Jean-Luc Godard
- Life
- Literature
- Painting
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

E. M. Forster
- Time
- Thinking
- Present