Quotes about Art

“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”

“Drafting is not only an art, but there's a degree of science as well.”

“Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.”

“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”

“Art is born of humiliation.”

“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.”

“In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.”

“Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.”

“In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.”

“Art is what defines us, what makes us human.”

“Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.”

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”

“Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.”

“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”

“Baking is both an art and a science.”

“Extreme complication is contrary to art.”

“Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.”

“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.”

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”