Art Quotes

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

George Bernard Shaw

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.

Auguste Rodin

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

Albert Einstein

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Oscar Wilde

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Issey Miyake

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

Mark Lawrence

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Clive Barker

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Maria Callas

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Junot Diaz

I hate art auctions.

Jerry Saltz

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

Jerry Saltz

What you see is what you see

Frank Stella

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Doris Humphrey

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art

Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

Marvin Hagler

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Emir Kusturica

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Jacob Bronowski

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracian

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

W.H. Auden