If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting. Mason Cooley on art
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. William Hazlitt on art
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. Denis Diderot on art
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. Hippocrates on art
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. Theodor Adorno on art
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Paul Cezanne on art
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land. Morihei Ueshiba on art
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema. Quentin Tarantino on art
There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world. Steve Martin on art
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. Steve Martin on art
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it. Steve Martin on art
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. Marshall McLuhan on art
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. Simone Weil on art
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. Ani DiFranco on art
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. Mason Cooley on art
Art seduces, but does not exploit. Mason Cooley on art
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. Claude Debussy on art
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. Arthur Conan Doyle on art
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. Jean Cocteau on art