1,029 Quotes Regarding Art


The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
Emmet Fox

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
Lady Gaga

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson Welles

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Lec

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
Eddie Vedder

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
T. S. Eliot

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Henry Rollins

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Clinton

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Epicurus

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Andy Warhol