1,029 Quotes Regarding Art


Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles Baudelaire

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
Tony Hawk

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
Stendhal

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats

Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Thomas Huxley

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
Carmen Electra

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau

All good art is an indiscretion.
Tennessee Williams

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Isaac Newton

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana