Arts and Artists Quotes
134 quotations about Arts and Artists
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Art is a form of catharsis.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
Authors on Arts and Artists
Lindsay Anderson
Guillaume Apollinaire
Jean Arp
Lester Bangs
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Jacques Barzun
Charles Baudelaire
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Thomas Berger
Adolf Berle
Professor Blackie
Christian Nevell Bovee
Elizabeth Bowen
Duke of Buckingham
Anthony Burgess
Albert Camus
Al Capp
Willa Cather
Paul Cezanne
Gilbert K. Chesterton