Quotes about Art

“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”

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

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”

“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”

“The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.”

“Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.”

“I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.”

“Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.”

“Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?”

“As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.”

“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”

“What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.”

“They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

“Art is not living. It is the use of living.”

“I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”

“People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.”

“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.”

“When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?”

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”