Art Quotes - random
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced. (1973)
There is only good and bad art.
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Theology is just like sex, the art of penetrating the mystery.
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
"I spend very little time just doing '“art as art.'”
..poor art for poor people (critic on social realism art)
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
L'amour est, comme la médecine, seulement l'art d'aider ? la nature.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.