Art Quotes - random
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
O Time! whose verdicts mock our own,
The only righteous judge art thou!
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”
Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.
Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
Beneath the gentle modesty of his behavior lay the absolute assurance of a born artist.
All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. (translator unknown).
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
You know who critics are?— the men who have failed in literature and art.
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.