Top 496 Art Quotes

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

Norman Rockwell

Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.

Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.

Nobu Matsuhisa

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Rebecca West

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Hans Hofmann

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Hans Hofmann

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Hans Hofmann

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Tony Kushner

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Tony Kushner

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

Tatyana Tolstaya

Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.

Sylvia Plath

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