Art Quotes - random
A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Blest is that government where no art thrives.
Realism in so far as it means reality to life is always bad art.
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.
I didn't want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.