Art Quotes - random
I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me.
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
If thou art wise, thou knowest thy own Ignorance ; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thy self.
An honest curator will admit that judgement is fallible, especially for art made yesterday.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say.
Faithless traitor, it is thou who art the cause of this massacre of our brothers!
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.