Art Quotes: Inspiring Thoughts and Creative Musings (Page 12)

"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness"

Holbrook Jackson, Writer

"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge"

Stendhal, Writer

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"The thing about filmmaking is, you're always learning. It's such a complex art form"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"Art matters"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

"Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"All art is exploitation"

Sherman Alexie, Writer

"All I owe the world is my art"

Sherman Alexie, Writer

"Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star"

Barry White, Musician

"I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide"

Keanu Reeves, Actor