Top 496 Art Quotes

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

Johnny Weir

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

Jim Dine

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.

Jewel Staite

We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of cognition. Loaded with moral and political point, narrative has been recalibrated to record, honour, and protest the latest historically specific instance of futility and mess.

Geoff Dyer

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Constantin Brancusi

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Henry Moore

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

Fritz Scholder

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.

David Rakoff

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Charles Munch

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Andrew O'Hagan

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