Art Quotes - random
In players, vanity cripples art at every step.
Artists have different materials they work with, and for Martin it’s words.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”
In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....
Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed.
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art.
Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality.
The artist has no concern as to what the picture means.His attitude is absolute objectivity.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist.
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.