Quotes about Art

“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”

“It's clever, but is it Art?”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.”

“Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.”

“With an apple I will astonish Paris.”

“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”

“If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.”

“So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.”

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

“A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.”

“Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.”

“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”

“It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.”

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

“Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.”

“Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.”

“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”