Top 496 Art Quotes

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

Salman Rushdie

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

Tristan Tzara

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

Peter York

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

George Henry Lewes

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

George Henry Lewes

The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.

Peter Zumthor

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

Peter Zumthor

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Mason Cooley

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

Duane Michals

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