Art Quotes - random
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art,
Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.
"I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!"
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist.
If life were enough for vitality, there would be no art.
(art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.
What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.
You become an artist to upset your family.
I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
Beneath the gentle modesty of his behavior lay the absolute assurance of a born artist.
Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.
I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object.
The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.