Art Quotes - random
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art.
The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.
Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....
Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.
Realism in so far as it means reality to life is always bad art.
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.
If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.
(art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
You become an artist to upset your family.
I couldn't have sex with someone who didn't think was a good artist.
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.