Top 496 Art Quotes

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.

Tim Blake Nelson

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Maurice de Vlaminck

When something in art or music piques my interest, I tend to go check it out, and most things I check out, I'm not very good at. But a few things I've gone to check out have given me back as much love as I gave them, usually much more.

Esperanza Spalding

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Edward Hopper

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Obviously I know if you're putting yourself out there, saying, 'Hey! Listen to my music!,' with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you. 'I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos.' Fine: don't care. That's the great thing about art: it's not for everyone.

FKA twigs

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Robert Carlyle

I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and you can take the measurements off my drawings. It's like drafting, but it's a work of art - a really beautiful drawing.

Charles Pollock

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Isadora Duncan

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