Top 35 Fine Art Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Fine Art Quotes from famous people such as Ken Loach, John Wooden, Gustave Courbet, Nancy Lublin, Sasha Pivovarova, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It’s as valid as novels or fine art.
Ken Loach
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
John Wooden
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
Gustave Courbet
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my ‘special-day shoes.’
Nancy Lublin
My favorite places in Moscow are the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art – it has a wonderful collection of Impressionists – the Justo club, and Sandyni Bath, which is the oldest bath house in Moscow.
Sasha Pivovarova
The audience for comics has shifted dramatically. And the boundaries between books and fine arts have blurred. Maybe it’s the globalization of fine art through the Internet – it’s easy for certain groups to coalesce around a certain kind of work or medium.
Shaun Tan
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
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
Richard MacDonald
‘The Next Wave’ started as a drawing for a new silkscreen fine art print. I ended up doing the prints digitally because the water-based inks were better for the environment than the oil based inks. So, I learned about the Epson digital printers to get the image I wanted.
John Van Hamersveld
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden
I was the first person in my family who was ever interested in dance, or fine art of any kind for that matter – I came from a very humble beginning in San Pedro, California.
Misty Copeland
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
Fran Drescher
I am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.
Samantha Cameron
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I’m a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Ralph Bakshi
I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.
Molly Crabapple
I graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art in Graphic Design, and all in all, I can look back on my collegiate experience and say that I really did enjoy myself.
Karen Bardsley
Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
Mary Kay Blakely
But if you’re talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.
Leonard Nimoy
By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you’d no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.
Victoria Moran
I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it’s all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.
Mario Testino
There’s a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it’s an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
Norman Foster
Photography is not a fine art at all.
Antony Armstrong-Jones
The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.
Nobu Matsuhisa
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
Avery Brundage
The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
Maurice Sendak
Cyberbullying isn’t real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They’ve got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys.
Milo Yiannopoulos
My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, ‘Wow, you can really draw.’ Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
Patricia Polacco
I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.
Roger Rees
It wasn’t until I became a mother that I started to refer to myself as an artist as opposed to a fine art photographer.
Zoe Buckman
I collect human relationships very much the way others

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
Jerzy Kosinski
A year before I met Mark Brydon – he was the one I used to make all the music with in Moloko – I was living in Sheffield with a guy who was studying architecture. I used to go to his college and crash the lectures there. I had enrolled to do a fine art course, but then I met Mark, and we signed a record deal instead.
Roisin Murphy
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
Bill Griffith
I have a master’s degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don’t carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras.
Leonard Nimoy