Top 496 Art Quotes

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.

Susan Davis

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Max Beckmann

I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.

Roger Bart

I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

Spike Jonze

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

Ruby Rose

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

Jack Bowman

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

Donald Judd

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Raoul Dufy

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