Art Quotes

"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"

"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one"

"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business"

Paul Valery, Poet

"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries"

Jimmy Carter, President

"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"I can concentrate on my art"

Lou Reed, Musician

"Yoga is an art and science of living"

Indra Devi, Celebrity

"Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian"

Christo, Artist

"I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character"

Maya Lin, Architect

"I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them"

Maya Lin, Architect

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern"

Thomas Harrison

"I don't need the money, dear. I work for art"

Maria Callas, Musician

"A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence"

Kemal Ataturk, Soldier

"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Politics is the art of the possible"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

"I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

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

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump"

Auguste Rodin, Sculptor

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding"

Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer

"Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough"

Paul Simon, Musician

"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"Layer by layer art strips life bare"

Robert Musil, Writer

"Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa"

Art Blakey, Musician

"Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film"

David Cronenberg, Director

"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

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