Top 496 Art Quotes

Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.

Karen Bender

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

John Burroughs

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.

John Burroughs

The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.

Robert M. Pirsig

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

Peter Max

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Martin Luther

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

Siri Hustvedt

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Ridley Scott

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

Natalie Jeremijenko

Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.

Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.

Doug Aitken

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