Art Quotes
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
~Leon Askin
~Leon Askin
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
~Ludwig Erhard
~Ludwig Erhard
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
~Issey Miyake
~Issey Miyake
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
~Wendy Carlos
~Wendy Carlos
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
~Edmond de Goncourt
~Edmond de Goncourt
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
~John Desmond Bernal
~John Desmond Bernal
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
~Beverly Sills
~Beverly Sills
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
~Peter Hammill
~Peter Hammill
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
~David Sedaris
~David Sedaris
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
~M. C. Richards
~M. C. Richards
And I just started a church. I called it the World's Folk Art Church. I bought this old church. There was no deacons or pastors or anything.
~Howard Finster
~Howard Finster
And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.
~Kim Gordon
~Kim Gordon
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
~Edith Wharton
~Edith Wharton
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
~Rebecca West
~Rebecca West
Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
~Wynetka Ann Reynolds
~Wynetka Ann Reynolds
Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.
~Shinichi Suzuki
~Shinichi Suzuki
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.
~David Cronenberg
~David Cronenberg
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
~Andre Gide
~Andre Gide
Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.
~Chick Corea
~Chick Corea
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
~Gunter Grass
~Gunter Grass
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
~Theophile Gautier
~Theophile Gautier
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
~Auguste Rodin
~Auguste Rodin
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
~Duke Ellington
~Duke Ellington
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
~W. Somerset Maugham
~W. Somerset Maugham
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
~Shinichi Suzuki
~Shinichi Suzuki
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
~Edith Wharton
~Edith Wharton
Art is part of a rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.
~Emma Goldman
~Emma Goldman
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
~Amy Lowell
~Amy Lowell
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
~Alfred North Whitehead
~Alfred North Whitehead
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