Art Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made.
There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
Interviewer: Would you say any other manga artists have influenced you?
Learn the art of Silence ; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.