Top 496 Art Quotes

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

I have a very broad-minded family. Acting is an art, and we understand that.

I have a very broad-minded family. Acting is an art, and we understand that.

Esha Gupta

I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.

I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.

Edgardo Osorio

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Eric Kandel

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Eugenio Montale

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Enid Bagnold

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

Elie Metchnikoff

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Ernest Hemingway

Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.

Edward Ruscha

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

Rachel Cusk

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