Top 496 Art Quotes

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

I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

Doug Aitken

We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

Doug Aitken

Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

George Edward Woodberry

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

Carlisle Floyd

Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if it weren't for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I'd ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write.

Philip Schultz

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

Philip Kaufman

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

Natalie Portman

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

John Trudell

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