Top 1000 Art Quotes & Sayings

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

It is hard to separate the art from the artist.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Art is all a matter of personality.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

Art is for everybody.

In art the best is good enough.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

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.

We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.

I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.