Top 496 Art Quotes

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jean Rostand

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

Joe Simon

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

Gerry Cooney

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

Barry McGee

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Gunter Grass

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Anais Nin

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

Eva Green

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

Harold Ramis

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Madame de Stael

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