Top 496 Art Quotes

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

Joanna Scott

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

Giacomo Leopardi

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

Yves Tanguy

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

Larry Gagosian

With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'

Yayoi Kusama

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

Leonard Baskin

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Leonard Baskin

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

LeRoy Neiman

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