Art Quotes - random
"le piano concentre et résume en lui l'art tout entier..."
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Where art thou, beam of light? Hunters, from the mossy rock, saw ye the blue-eyed fair?
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
...Every work of art is a transposition,a caricature,the passionate equivalent of a sensation received.
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
What is art but a way of seeing?
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.
"I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code."
Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.
Maria, you are a monster; you are not an artist nor a woman nor a human being, but a monster.
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
"I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!"
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.