Art Quotes

"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one"

"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness"

Eugenio Montale, Poet

"The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant"

Friedrich Schleiermacher, Theologian

"For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally"

Friedrich Schleiermacher, Theologian

"And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence"

Friedrich Schleiermacher, Theologian

"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy"

Claude Adrien Helvetius, Philosopher

"In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century"

Raoul Dufy, Artist

"American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer"

Raoul Dufy, Artist

"I think that music, like any other form of art, has no boundaries. The idea of categorizing music into genres or styles is a marketing tool"

Jean-Michel Jarre, Composer

"I learned a lot from Elvis. He taught me about music, art, literature, and culture"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"I believe that art has the power to change the world. To inspire people, to challenge their perspectives, and to create a better future for all of us"

Mia Maestro, Actress

"I believe that we need to have more dialogue and understanding between different cultures, and that art and culture can play an important role in bringing people together"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"I think art is the ultimate transformative tool. You can change somebody's mind or change somebody's life with one song, one painting, or one piece of literature"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created"

Bruce Beresford, Director

"In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis"

Robby Krieger, Musician

"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception"

Robert Motherwell, Artist

"If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond"

Ray Conniff, Musician

"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love"

Claude Monet, Artist

"No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation"

Frank Norris, Novelist

"Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form"

Michael Franti, Musician

"Art is when things appear rounded"

Maurice Denis, Artist

"I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it"

Keith Haring, Artist

"Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions"

Chick Corea, Musician

"Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it"

Omar Epps, Actor

"Entertainment and art are not isolated"

Martin Kippenberger, Artist

"The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important"

David Elliott, Celebrity

"Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious"

Charles Munch, Musician

"We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids"

Tony Danza, Actor

"I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

"I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth"

Lewis H. Lapham, Editor

"What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing"

Fernand Leger, Artist

"The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game"

Delia Smith, Celebrity

"Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times"

David Ben-Gurion, Statesman

"I was truly ignorant about art before the film"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely"

Charlton Heston, Actor

"One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'"

Carla Bley, Musician

"Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively"

Bubba Sparxxx, Musician

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