Quotes about Art

“Art is the triumph over chaos.”

“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”

“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”

“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.”

“I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.”

“Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.”

“There are all kinds of pretensions about art, but I'm just a guy who sings for his supper.”

“Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.”

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”

“Art must take reality by surprise.”

“Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.”

“True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.”

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

“Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.”

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”

“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.”

“Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.”

“A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.”