Art Quotes - page 14
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
To sense the invisible and to be able to create it — that is art.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.
Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
Everything written about art is profoundly unimportant.
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Life’s like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Maria, you are a monster; you are not an artist nor a woman nor a human being, but a monster.
Real art must always involve some witchcraft.