Top 496 Art Quotes

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

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

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 think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

I want to know art.