Top 496 Art Quotes

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Salvador Dali

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

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

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

Noah Taylor

The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.

The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.

Teller

Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.

Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.

Peter Landesman

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Mae West

I had had no art training.

I had had no art training.

Dorothy Malone

I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they didn't expect. They want stuff that reminds them of the feelings that you get when you're watching art house movies but with the fun of like a big summer movie. That's the goal, I guess.

Rian Johnson

My first acquaintance with 'Peter Pan' was back when I lived in South London. I was at art school, and I needed to earn money, so I got a job as a stagehand at the Wimbledon Theatre, and 'Peter Pan' was on tour there with Donald Sinden, who was playing Captain Hook.

Roger Rees

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