Art Quotes

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Paracelsus

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Kurt Vonnegut

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Arsene Wenger

I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.

Hollace M. Metzger

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Oscar Wilde

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Jean Cocteau

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Leslie Fiedler

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.

Solange nicole

I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.

Meagan Earls

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.

Pablo Picasso

People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure....People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

Leo Tolstoy

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

Steven Spielberg

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe