Art Quotes

"Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better"

"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"Human requirements are the inspiration for art"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth"

Patti Smith, Musician

"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas"

Paul Valery, Poet

"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency"

Learned Hand, Judge

"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness"

E. T. Bell, Mathematician

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible"

Michelangelo, Artist

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"Art is a way of reminding people that there is beauty and hope in the world"

Wayne Shorter, Musician

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art"

Susan Sontag, Author

"In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"Art is a revolt against fate.All art is a revolt against man's fate"

Andre Malraux, Author

"An art book is a museum without walls"

Andre Malraux, Author

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down"

Truman Capote, Novelist

"Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist"

Rene Magritte, Artist

"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

"My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect"

John Dyer, Artist

"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level"

John Dyer, Artist

"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water"

Stendhal, Writer

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