Art Quotes - random
An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."
"The act of treachery is an art, but the traitor himself is a piece of shit."
It was Homer who gave laws to the artist.
Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
Life’s like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience.
Real art must always involve some witchcraft.