Art Quotes: Inspiring Thoughts and Creative Musings (Page 2)

"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

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

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic"

Charles Eames, Designer

"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence"

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old"

Robert Indiana, Artist

"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks"

Edward Koch, Politician

"Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship"

John Grierson, Director

"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them"

Elliott Erwitt, Photographer

"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

"But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc"

Bruno Bauer, Theologian

"There is no art without Eros"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Art is the proper task of life"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Personality is everything in art and poetry"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"In art the best is good enough"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"The art of government is the organisation of idolatry"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"All art is but imitation of nature"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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