Art Quotes

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

Jerry Saltz

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

John Lasseter

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Octavia Butler

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Robert Browning

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

George Jean Nathan

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.

Jerry Saltz

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Paul Cezanne

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Oscar Wilde

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Paul Getty

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

Jodi Picoult

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Camille Paglia

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Billy Sunday

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Andre Maurois

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Camille Paglia

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Steve Martin

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Pierre Bonnard

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn