Top 496 Art Quotes

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.

For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.

Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.