Art Quotes - random
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.
Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”
"I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!"
One of the capital's most influential public artists.
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Artists give us not conclusions but evidence.
"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."