Top 496 Art Quotes

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

John Guare

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

John Donne

I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.

Charles Saatchi

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

Charles Saatchi

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

Charles Saatchi

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

Louis Leakey

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

Jose Bergamin

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

Joe Haldeman

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

Frank Gehry

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