Art Quotes - random
All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.
The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Art is anything you can get away with.
Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.
In players, vanity cripples art at every step.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
It was Homer who gave laws to the artist.
Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....
The Old and New Testaments are the great code of art.
With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.
Betty and her gallery helped construct the center of the art world. She was one of the last of her breed.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return!
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession,? and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)