Art Quotes

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Jerzy Kosinski

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Sarah Bernhardt

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Robert Delaunay

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Max Beerbohm

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Art Blakey

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Susan Sontag

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Helen Rowland

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Henry A. Kissinger

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

Marilyn Manson

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Ben Johnson

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Keanu Reeves

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Pablo Picasso

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

Ellie Goulding

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Herbie Hancock

What is art? Prostitution.

Charles Baudelaire

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

Henry Louis Gates

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Sri Chinmoy

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Robert Morgan