Top 495 Art Quotes

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Julia Morgan
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler
I haven’t mastered the art of sitting and smiling.
Ashley Wagner
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Lincoln Steffens
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it’s our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Wynton Marsalis
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Helen Hayes
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Adolf Loos
Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.
Steven A. Cohen
I love beautiful things. I’m not into art so much, like paintings.
Celine Dion
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Norman McLaren
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it’s highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
Thom Mayne
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim Hodges
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
Denis Villeneuve
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Georg Cantor
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with s

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.
John Wayne
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
John James Audubon
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
Camillo di Cavour
I was a product of Andy Warhol’s Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.
Lou Reed
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
Leonard Baskin
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
Jerry Saltz
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
Glenn Gould
The best artists know what to leave out.
Charles de Lint
Knowing how to dress is an art.
Rosalia
In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.
Tzipi Livni
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl Rogers
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren’t usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It’s structures and patterns, and that’s what we love, and that’s what we get off on.
Danica McKellar
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Paulo Coelho
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you’re putting out there, if it’s received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it’s not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.
Ansel Adams
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
Kehinde Wiley
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
Art is what defines us, what makes us human.
Jan Vogler
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
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We’re all works of art in progress.
Carmen Dell’Orefice
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Frank Wedekind
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
Jordan Peterson
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk
I believe that economics is based on scarcity of market

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.
Nipsey Hussle
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Oscar Wilde
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn’t be nearly as interesting.
Jessye Norman
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert Delaunay
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
Oscar Wilde
Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.
Mohanlal
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Pierre Bonnard
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
Stan Getz
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Robert Musil
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Balthus
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
James Huneker
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Cocteau
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Anthony Trollope
For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
Deepak Chopra
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.
Alexander Calder
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Robert Quillen
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
H. R. Giger
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it

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