Art Quotes - random
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man.
Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
Randy Jackson: "Madonna knows the business and her art better than anyone."
Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies.
The art of life is passing losses on.
The only way to development(as an artist) cultivating one's own innate powers.
One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs .
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Art lies in understanding some part of the dark forces and bringing them under the direction of reason.
Music is the vapour of art.
But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art.
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object.
Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
"Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens."