Quotes about Art

“Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?”

“Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.”

“It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.”

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

“You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.”

“I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.”

“Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”

“I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.”

“The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.”

“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.”

“All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.”

“Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.”

“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.”

“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.”

“Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.”

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”

“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”

“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”

“All good art is an indiscretion.”