1,029 Quotes Regarding Art


When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
Edward Steichen

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
Louis Kahn

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Robert Delaunay

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Kary Mullis

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim Hodges

You begin with the possibilities of the material.
Robert Rauschenberg

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Alexander Calder

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolfe

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert Indiana

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Max Eastman

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
Alfred de Vigny

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell

I paint with shapes.
Alexander Calder

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
Robert Indiana