Art Quotes

Now I wantSpirits to enforce, art to enchant;And my ending is despair,Unless I be relieved by prayer

William Shakespeare

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Plato

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

Plato

Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.

Thomas Carlyle

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Elizabeth Bowen

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Oscar Wilde

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

Jerry Saltz

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

Tori Amos

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Robert Delaunay

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Hermann Hesse

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Frank Wedekind

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Jerry Saltz

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Guy Debord

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

Mos Def

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Edward Dahlberg

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Franklin P. Jones

I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

Jerry Saltz

We dont like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. Well, art is art, isnt it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.

Groucho Marx