Art Quotes - random
An artist is a socially unattractive person whom socially attractive people make money out of.
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
Happiness is not essential to the artist; happiness never creates anything but memories.
Art is man added to Nature Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612).
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience.
Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.
Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed.