Art Quotes

Where does contagion end and art begin?

Neil Gaiman

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

Jeff Bridges

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Rabindranath Tagore

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

George Santayana

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Martin Luther

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

Alexander Pope

When art wins, everyone wins.

Jerry Saltz

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Clara Schumann

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Honore de Balzac

Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Paracelsus

Sunlight is painting.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Vaclav Havel

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Leo Tolstoy

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

Pink

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Luis Bunuel

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.

Stephen King

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. A thought has escaped me. I wanted to write it down. I write instead, that it has escaped me.

Blaise Pascal