Top 496 Art Quotes

There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go.

There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go.

Jonathan Hickman

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

George Jean Nathan

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

Clifton Fadiman

The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say, might want to go in a certain direction, and while it may seem like it has resonance with things that are happening topically, you kind of want the world you're creating to have its own internal logic.

Tim Minear

Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

Jerome Charyn

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

Stephen Sprouse

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Havelock Ellis

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

Norman Granz

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