Art Quotes - random
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”
"A true master of peace is well versed in the art of war."
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.
Cry, Art, cry and lament loudly, nobody nowadays wants you.
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
The time of year when the devil comes and spews art over London.
I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Hitler was basically an artist.
No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour.
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…
All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre.
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.