Top 1200 Beautiful Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

There's nothing wrong with using the money that you earn to be daring and buy art that you love or that you think is beautiful.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet. The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet. The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet. And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you I haven't said yet.

When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts.

I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself to some extent. But I'm not a skilled or thorough art historian and I wouldn't call myself an art critic.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.

For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

I adore opera and I truly believe it is one of the most beautiful art forms on Earth.

Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.

As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking that if you're religious, you could be. But you shouldn't be! You can be extremely religious and have your faith and still be open-minded to art. Because this is art. That's part of the excitement. It literally is "The Jerry Springer Show" on-stage set to beautiful operatic music. That's what's so incredible about it!

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. ...There's always something beautiful to be experienced wherever you are.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

I always had something to think about or draw from, which as an actor is a gift. The beautiful thing about film is that it gets so much closer than stage. I love stage and that's what I started doing and it's a beautiful art form in of itself, but in film you can move your eyes to the side and somehow the audience can fill in the blanks of what you're thinking.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

I am a lifelong Moebius geek. The European approach is perfect, the art is beautiful, and the storytelling is fantastic.

It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things And even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.