Top 496 Art Quotes

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

Kenny Leon

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

Giotto di Bondone

Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.

Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.

Miriam Toews

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.

Hussein Chalayan

My friend Josh Glenn compiles terrific lists of genre novels from the mid-20th century. His latest is a list of the ten best adventure novels of 1966. Josh also includes the cover art of early editions of the books, which are always much better than the art on newer editions. I want to read every book in this list!

Mark Frauenfelder

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

Iain McGilchrist

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Thornton Wilder

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

Janet Echelman

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.

Jim Lee

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Clive Bell

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