Art Quotes

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

Temple Grandin

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Nicolas Chamfort

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Charles Baudelaire

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Pablo Picasso

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Elbert Hubbard

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Plato

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Lady Gaga

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Federico Fellini

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Hillary Clinton

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Jimmy Carter

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

Michelangelo

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

John Berryman

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Ansel Adams

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Forbes

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Albert Camus