Art Quotes - random
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."
The world is losing a great artist (dies).
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
All loved Art in a seemly way
With an earnest soul and a capital A.
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. (translator unknown).
It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.
It [angling] deserves commendations;… it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
"I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code."
Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.
The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.