1,029 Quotes Regarding Art


A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Helen Rowland

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
Martin Scorsese

Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
Christina Aguilera

I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Keith Haring

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Henri Frederic Amiel

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
William Morris

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
Shia LaBeouf

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Norman McLaren

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Jean Cocteau

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
Brian Eno

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
Brian Eno

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Arthur Koestler

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
Brian Eno

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
Ad Reinhardt

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
Tori Amos

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Ernst Fischer

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
Willie Nelson

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
Paula Abdul