Art Quotes

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

Jerry Saltz

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Marilyn Manson

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

Jerry Saltz

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Martha Beck

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

Jonathan Swift

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

Alanis Morissette

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

I think good art does come from a dark place.

Rick Springfield

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Paul Klee

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

Marilyn Manson

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Ben Okri

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

David Rockefeller

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

Catherine Deneuve

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

Eddie Vedder

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Jet Li

I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. I do not believe that you know. I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

Virginia Woolf

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.

Jonathan Swift

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Oscar Wilde

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Henry Moore