Art Quotes - random
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience.
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
What is art but the denial of life?
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
..poor art for poor people (critic on social realism art)
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Art is the signature of civilizations.