Top 496 Art Quotes

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

Marilyn Manson

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

Joyce Maynard

An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.

Bat for Lashes

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Cyril Connolly

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Issey Miyake

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore de Balzac

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.

Chris Ofili

Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.

Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.

Jeffrey Brown

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Henry Moore

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

Harold Prince

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