Top 496 Art Quotes

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Billy Sunday

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

Thomas Hoving

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Simone Weil

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

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Hedy Lamarr

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

David Bailey

I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.

Brenda Brathwaite

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

Bruce Nauman

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

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