Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Art.
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
Lewis Mumford
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Rene Magritte
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
Jerry Saltz
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
T. S. Eliot
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm De Chazal
If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
Harry S Truman
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
George V. Higgins
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
Kesha
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne
Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Laurie Anderson
That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.
C.S. Lewis
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
Lady Gaga
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Paul Klee
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
Nick Cave
