Quotes about Art

“There is no art without Eros.”

“Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.”

“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”

“I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.”

“There is no must in art because art is free.”

“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”

“Patience is the art of hoping.”

“My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.”

“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”

“The real art of conducting consists in transitions.”

“Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.”

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”

“The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.”

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”

“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”

“By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.”

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”

“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.”

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”