1,029 Quotes Regarding Art


Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Frank Wedekind

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
Mos Def

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Isadora Duncan

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
Ani DiFranco

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
Nicolas Chamfort

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
Danny Boyle

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Robert Browning

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

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Paul Klee

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
Elia Kazan

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
Robert Browning

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
Tony Snow

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
Shirley MacLaine

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Thomas Mann

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
Franz Marc

The art of communication is the language of leadership.
James Humes

I love to collect modern art.
Maria Sharapova

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
Vidal Sassoon