Quotes about Art

“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”

“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”

“It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.”

“Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.”

“Art is eternal, but life is short.”

“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”

“Resolve and thou art free.”

“My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'”

“With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.”

“I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.”

“In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.”

“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”

“Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.”

“I will preach with my brush.”

“The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.”

“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.”

“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”

“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”

“The art is long, life is short.”

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”

“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”