All Quotes

Art is the path to being spiritual.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

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

Art is the proper task of life.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
‐‐ John Berger

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

Art is the signature of civilizations.
‐‐ Beverly Sills

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
‐‐ Theodore Dreiser

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
‐‐ Evelyn Waugh

Art is the triumph over chaos.
‐‐ John Cheever

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
‐‐ Ben Elliot

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
‐‐ Gian Carlo Menotti

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.
‐‐ Olivier Theyskens

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
‐‐ Lady Bird Johnson

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
‐‐ Hans Hofmann

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
‐‐ Ad Reinhardt

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
‐‐ Maya Lin

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.
‐‐ Jim McKelvey

Art is what you can get away with.
‐‐ Andy Warhol

Art is when things appear rounded.
‐‐ Maurice Denis

Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.
‐‐ Lucien Bourjeily

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

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
‐‐ K'naan

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.
‐‐ Guy Davenport

Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.
‐‐ Frank Morgan

Art lies by its own artifice.
‐‐ Ovid

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. We have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don't let interior designers pick art for us.
‐‐ Jorge M. Perez

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
‐‐ Alan Moore

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.
‐‐ Eula Biss

Art matters.
‐‐ Barbara Januszkiewicz

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
‐‐ Ani DiFranco

Art means to dare - and to have been right.
‐‐ Ned Rorem

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.
‐‐ Steve Tisch

Art morphs with what's going on in the world. We say 'Ferguson'; we don't say 'Mike Brown.' Just like we say 'Selma,' not 'Jimmie Lee Jackson.' There is something startling about the people in a particular place, a city or a small town, rising up and taking to the streets.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
‐‐ George A. Moore

Art must not serve might.
‐‐ Karel Capek

Art must take reality by surprise.
‐‐ Francoise Sagan

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
‐‐ Rockwell Kent

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
‐‐ Angela Carter

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
‐‐ Peter M. Brant

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
‐‐ Alfred de Vigny

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
‐‐ Giorgio Vasari