Art Quotes - random
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.
Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream,
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
Art is not a pastime, it is a duty with respect to the people, a public affair.
"A true master of peace is well versed in the art of war."
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
Randy Jackson: "Madonna knows the business and her art better than anyone."
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
I don't take art as seriously as politics.
Art is not imitation but illusion.
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.