Art Quotes

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

Constantin Stanislavski

The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.

Wallace Stevens

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Karl Lagerfeld

And now impatiently despairest, see How nought is changed: Joy's wisdom is attired Splended for others' eyes if not for thee: Not love or beauty or youth from earth is fled: If they delite thee not, 'tis thou art dead.

Robert Bridges

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

Marilyn Monroe

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Ricky Skaggs

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

Mark Twain

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

Gilles Deleuze

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Paul Johnson

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Alain de Botton

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Hippocrates

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

Christopher Meloni

If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

Cath Crowley

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Lady Gaga

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Benjamin Haydon

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Miguel de Cervantes

The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Albert Einstein

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty

Andrei Tarkovsky