Art Quotes - random
The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators.
Al Gore: "I appreciate and respect her as an artist and as a person."
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
I don't take art as seriously as politics.
Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
Learn the art of Silence ; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Art lies in understanding some part of the dark forces and bringing them under the direction of reason.
Beneath the gentle modesty of his behavior lay the absolute assurance of a born artist.
Art is what is irresistible.
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return!
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object.
“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”
Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part;
Nature in him was almost lost in Art.
In the vaunted works of Art
The master stroke is Nature's part.