Art Is famous quotes
04-15-2025
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.
-- Al Jourgensen -
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
-- Albert Camus -
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
-- Alex Grey -
Art is only art if it is synonymous with living
-- Alexander Girard -
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience...
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
-- Alice Neel -
Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
-- Amiri Baraka -
I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
-- Aristotle -
Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at
-- Arthur Danto -
The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.
-- August Kleinzahler -
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
-- August Wilson -
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
-- Auguste Rodin -
In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
-- Auguste Rodin -
Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.
-- Benedetto Croce -
The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
-- Beth Henley -
Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.
-- Brian Eno -
I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
-- Brian Selznick -
The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form
-- Bruce Lee -
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
-- Bruce Nauman -
All art is someone trying to tell you something.
-- Caitlin Moran -
Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.
-- Carrie Mae Weems -
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.
-- Charlie Peacock -
Art is so often better at theology than theology is.
-- Christian Wiman -
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
-- Christopher Lasch -
I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.
-- Damien Hirst -
In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
-- Dan Graham -
Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.
-- David Bayles -
An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.
-- David Foster -
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
-- David Hockney -
The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.
-- David McCullough -
Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.
-- David Sedaris -
Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.
-- Don Spencer -
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
-- Donald Judd -
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,
-- Dorothea Lange -
I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.
-- Ed Sheeran -
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
-- Edgar Degas -
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.
-- Eduardo Chillida -
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
-- Edward Hopper -
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
-- Egon Schiele -
Art is much, but love is more ...
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
-- Emile Zola -
real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.
-- Emily Carr -
If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.
-- Eric Fischl -
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
-- Eugenio Montale -
The highest art is artlessness.
-- Francis Alexander Durivage -
Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.
-- Frank Frazetta -
Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
-- Gao Xingjian -
Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
-- Georges Braque -
The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
-- Georges Braque -
Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
-- Georges Braque -
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
-- Goldwin Smith -
My art is not an answer, it is a question.
-- Gottfried Helnwein -
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
-- Gustave Courbet -
Greatness in art is always a by-product.
-- Harold Rosenberg -
Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.
-- Harry Hooton -
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
-- Harry S. Truman -
The highest condition of art is artlessness.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Art is an international language, understood by all.
-- Igor Babailov
