Art Quotes

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

Elizabeth George
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Corita Kent
- Art
- Risk
- Brave

The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art. When the Japanese economy went down the tubes, there was no one left to pay the prices that have been recorded for all of those works.

Arne Glimcher
- Art
- Japanese
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.

Joshua Reynolds
- Power
- Genius
- Rules
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.

Eavan Boland
- History
- Growing
- Language
Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

Donnie Yen
- Art
- Action
- Drama
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Danny Boyle
- People
- Art
- Culture
Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.

J. M. W. Turner
- Art
- Together