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

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

John Donne

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

Felix de Weldon

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

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

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

Tracy Morgan

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

David Bailey

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

Ben Folds

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

James Gray

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