Art Quotes - page 2
In the vaunted works of Art
The master stroke is Nature's part.
A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Art is a jealous mistress.
Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home:
Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
Capitalism is an art form.
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
No, you are not art. You are... a public nuisance. We're about to ban you. Hooah.
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
An artist is a socially unattractive person whom socially attractive people make money out of.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.