Top 496 Art Quotes

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Martin Luther

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

Siri Hustvedt

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Ridley Scott

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

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 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

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

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