Art Quotes

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary montony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

Oscar Wilde

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Franz Marc

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Robert Morgan

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

William Morris

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

Steve Martin

When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

Jerry Saltz

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Lady Gaga

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Albert Camus

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

William Bernbach

Art is not a thing it is a way.

Elbert Hubbard

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Steve Martin

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Friedrich Schiller

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Jean Cocteau

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Marcel Duchamp

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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