Top 496 Art Quotes

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

Anish Kapoor

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Anna Jameson

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Peter O'Toole

I am a pretty tough nut, I guess, and I love art as one of the expressions that probably appeals to my softer side that a lot of people would deny I had.

I am a pretty tough nut, I guess, and I love art as one of the expressions that probably appeals to my softer side that a lot of people would deny I had.

Kerry Stokes

'Louie' is a beautiful show. I think it's art on television.

'Louie' is a beautiful show. I think it's art on television.

Sarah Baker

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

Lynda Barry

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo da Vinci

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

Chris Jordan

Art lies by its own artifice.

Art lies by its own artifice.

Ovid

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