Art Quotes

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

"You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"Education is the art of making man ethical"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

"When we separate music from life we get art"

John Cage, Composer

"A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art"

Muriel Rukeyser, Poet

"The art of acting is to be other than what you are"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

"Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live"

Remy de Gourmont, Novelist

"Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?"

Jay-Z, Musician

"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony"

Horace Walpole, Author

"I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department"

John Sayles, Director

"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience"

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"I am an artist, art has no color and no sex"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

"O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!"

Barry Cornwall, Poet

"I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living"

Robert Henri, Artist

"Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work"

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

"Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination"

Daniel Bell, Sociologist

"In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage"

Frank Capra, Director

"To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"People in misery is what most important in art"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!"

Thomas Hood, Poet

"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art"

Remy de Gourmont, Novelist

"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art"

Walter Hagen, Athlete

"I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

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