Top 496 Art Quotes

Short stories are my favorite art form. A good one is compact and complete, a telling little slice of life, capturing a moment in time that - for the character - defines her, changes her, is the tipping point for all that will follow.

Ellen Klages

I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.

I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.

Elizabeth Peyton

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.

Peter Saul

I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.

I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.

Billy Collins

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

Sam Kinison

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Jet Li

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

K. D. Lang

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

Barbara Kruger

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Herman Hesse

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