Art Quotes - random
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
The theory and practice of gamesmanship; or, The art of winning games without actually cheating.
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation.
The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.
Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Art lies in understanding some part of the dark forces and bringing them under the direction of reason.
I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Kicked in the ribs, the press says "art" when "ouch" would be more appropriate.
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.
All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.
Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man.
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Art is not imitation but illusion.