Art Quotes

"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass"

"Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work"

"Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy"

"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous"

"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training"

Josef Albers, Artist

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it"

Duke Ellington, Musician

"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art"

Josef Albers, Artist

"Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely"

Josef Albers, Artist

"My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake"

Walter Pater, Critic

"And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object"

Walter Pater, Critic

"A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art"

Louis Nizer, Lawyer

"The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation"

Louise Brooks, Actress

"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on"

Patton Oswalt, Comedian

"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work"

Martin Mull, Actor

"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

"I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors"

John Hench, Artist

"Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see"

Josef Albers, Artist

"Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from"

Jaime Hernandez, Artist

"More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

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