Art Quotes

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Henry Moore

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Confucius

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

Lenny Bruce

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

André Gide

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

Knut Hamsun

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

André Gide

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

James Whistler

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliott Erwitt

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

David Hockney

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Oscar Wilde

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

James Thurber

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

William Wordsworth

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

Jerry Saltz