Top 496 Art Quotes

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Conrad Hall

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Conrad Hall

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

Louis C. K.

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

Billy Childish

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.

Friedrich Engels

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

Sean O'Casey

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

Richard Avedon

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Maya Lin

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Brian Eno

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