Top 496 Art Quotes

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.

Roger Bart

All art is a confession.

All art is a confession.

Gaston Lachaise

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

George Jean Nathan

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

Twyla Tharp

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Joe Wright

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Paul Cezanne

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Benjamin Haydon

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