Tuesday, March 24, 2026 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Art Quotes - random


William Tyndale | Art Quotes
Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
William Hazlitt
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.




Andrew Marvell
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
Robert Owen
Thou needest to be very right, Robert, for thou art very positive.
Robert Rauschenberg | Art Quotes
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)
Martin Heidegger
Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.
Alain de Botton
The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
Clive James
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
Halldor Laxness
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.
Randall Jarrell | Art Quotes
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.




William Saroyan
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
William Blake
Why art thou silent and invisible,
Father of Jealousy?
Georges Bizet
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Arshile Gorky
..poor art for poor people (critic on social realism art)
Steve Jobs | Art Quotes
Good artists copy; great artists steal.
A. P. Herbert
As my poor father used to say
In 1863,
Once people start on all this Art
Goodbye, moralitee!
Edward Young
The course of Nature is the art of God.
John Constable
The time of year when the devil comes and spews art over London.
M. C. Escher
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.


© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact